The evolution of the bone-cracking model in carnivorans: Cranial functional morphology of the Plio-Pleistocene cursorial hyaenid Chasmaporthetes lunensis (Mammalia: Carnivora)

Paleobiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 140-156

  Tseng, Zhijie Jack ^a,b   Antón, Mauricio ^c   Salesa, Manuel J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; DISSIPATION; ECOMORPHOLOGY; FELID; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FITNESS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SPECIALIST; TOOTH;

CARNIVORA; CRANIA; CROCUTA CROCUTA; HYAENIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 78650853955     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/09045.1     Document Type: Article

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