New multituberculate mammals from the Lower Cretaceous (Shahai and Fuxin Formations), Northeastern China

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1501-1514

  Kusuhashi, Nao ^a,b,c   Hu, Yaoming ^a   Wang, Yuanqing ^a   Setoguchi, Takeshi ^c,d   Matsuoka, Hiroshige ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FUKADA GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DENTITION; IDENTIFICATION KEY; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; TAXONOMY; TYPE LOCALITY;

CHINA; LIAONING;

MAMMALIA; TRIANGULUS;

EID: 77957780586     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: 19372809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2010.501435     Document Type: Article

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