Earliest record of dental pathogen discovered in a North American eocene rabbit

Palaios

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 818-822

  Fostowicz Frelik, Łucja ^a,b   Frelik, Grzegorz J ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; DENTAL HEALTH; EOCENE; FOSSILIZATION; FUNGUS; LAGOMORPH; MICROFOSSIL; PALEOECOLOGY; PATHOGEN;

NORTH AMERICA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUTHERIA; LAGOMORPHA; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 78649752564     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2010.p10-084r     Document Type: Article

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