3D computational imaging of the petrosal of a new multituberculate mammal from the Late Cretaceous of China and its paleobiologic inferences;Imagerie en trois dimensions d'un os pétreux d'un nouveau mammifère multituberculé du Crétacé supérieur de Chine et ses implications paléobiologiques

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Volumn 9, Issue 6-7, 2010, Pages 319-330

  Ladevèze, Sandrine ^a   De Muizon, Christian ^b   Colbert, Matthew ^c   Smith, Thierry ^a  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bony labyrinth; Computed tomography; Ear; Evolution; Mammalia; Petrosal bone

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRETACEOUS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MAMMAL; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RESOLUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

MONGOLIA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MONOTREMATA; THERIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78649449607     PISSN: 16310683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2010.07.008     Document Type: Article

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