Phylogeny of the Carnivora and Carnivoramorpha, and the use of the fossil record to enhance understanding of evolutionary transformations

Carnivoran Evolution: New Views on Phylogeny, Form, and Function

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 25-63

  Flynn, John J ^a   Finarelli, John A ^b   Spaulding, Michelle ^c  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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