Dimetrodon Is Not a Dinosaur: Using Tree Thinking to Understand the Ancient Relatives of Mammals and their Evolution

Evolution: Education and Outreach

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 257-271

  Angielczyk, Kenneth D ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary tree; Mammal like reptile; Mammalia; Non mammalian synapsid; Permian; Phylogeny; Synapsida; Tree thinking; Triassic

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649859597     PISSN: 19366426     EISSN: 19366434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12052-009-0117-4     Document Type: Article

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