Craniodental morphology and systematics of a new family of hystricognathous rodents (Gaudeamuridae) from the late Eocene and early Oligocene of Egypt

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Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Sallam, Hesham M ^a   Seiffert, Erik R ^b   Simons, Elwyn L ^c  

^a Mansoura University   (Egypt)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLADISTICS; EGYPT; FAMILY; GAUDEAMURIDAE; GAUDEAMUS; HYSTRIX; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; ODONTOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PLESIOMORPHY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; RODENT; RUPELIAN; SKULL; SOUTH AMERICA; TAXON; TAXONOMY; TOOTH OCCLUSION; UPPER EOCENE; AFRICA; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DENTITION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; TOOTH;

CAVIOMORPHA; CRANIA; HYSTRICIDAE; HYSTRICOGNATHI; HYSTRIX (MAMMAL); RATTUS; RODENTIA; THRYONOMYS;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; DENTITION; EGYPT; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RODENTIA; SKULL; TOOTH;

EID: 79952047782     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016525     Document Type: Article

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