Nasal aperture area and body mass in felids: Ecophysiological implications and paleobiological inferences;Surface d'ouverture nasale et masse corporelle chez les félidés implications écophysiologiques et inférences paléobiologiques

Geobios

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 653-661

  Torregrosa, Vanessa ^a,b   Petrucci, Mauro ^c   Pérez Claros, Juan A ^a   Palmqvist, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b Fundación Geociencias and Art Natura Málaga   (Spain)

^c Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body mass; Ecomorphology; Felidae; Nasal chamber; Paleobiology; Saber tooth cats

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; ECOMORPHOLOGY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FELID; PALEOBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CARNIVORA; FELIDAE; FELINAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 78649906484     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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