Transitional mammalian middle ear from a new Cretaceous Jehol eutriconodont

Nature

Volumn 472, Issue 7342, 2011, Pages 181-185

  Meng, Jin ^a,b   Wang, Yuanqing ^b   Li, Chuankui ^b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CRANIUM; CRETACEOUS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; HEARING; HOMOLOGY; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY OSSICLE; CARTILAGE; CHINA; CRETACEOUS; EVOLUTION; HYPOTHESIS; MALLEUS; MAMMAL; MANDIBLE; MIDDLE EAR; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARTILAGE; CHINA; EAR OSSICLES; EAR, MIDDLE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; JAW; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

CHINA; LIAONING;

GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79954484328     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09921     Document Type: Article

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