The evolution of mammal-like crocodyliforms in the Cretaceous Period of Gondwana

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7307, 2010, Pages 748-751

  O'Connor, Patrick M ^a,b   Sertich, Joseph J W ^c   Stevens, Nancy J ^a,b   Roberts, Eric M ^d,e   Gottfried, Michael D ^f   Hieronymus, Tobin L ^g   Jinnah, Zubair A ^h   Ridgely, Ryan ^a   Ngasala, Sifa E ^f,i   Temba, Jesuit ^j  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^j Tanzania Antiquities Unit   (Tanzania)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; CROCODILIAN; DIVERSITY INDEX; FOSSIL RECORD; GONDWANA; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; SKULL; TOOTH;

ARTICLE; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; CRETACEOUS; CROCODYLIFORM; DENTITION; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FOSSIL ANIMAL; JAW; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; TANZANIA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HISTORY; MAMMAL; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

RUKWA; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DENTITION; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; TANZANIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77955495754     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09061     Document Type: Article

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