Biting through constraints: Cranial morphology, disparity and convergence across living and fossil carnivorous mammals

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1713, 2011, Pages 1831-1839

  Goswami, Anjali ^a   Milne, Nick ^b   Wroe, Stephen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cranium; Developmental constraints; Diversity; Marsupials; Morphometrics; Placentals

Indexed keywords

BONE; CARNIVORY; CLADISTICS; CRANIUM; DIET; FOSSIL RECORD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MARSUPIAL; MORPHOMETRY; PLEISTOCENE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CARNIVORA; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; PHYLOGENY; PREDATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SKULL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICS; CARNIVORA; FOSSILS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAMMALS; MARSUPIALIA; PHYLOGENY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SKULL;

CARNIVORA; CREODONTA; DASYUROMORPHIA; DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; FELIDAE; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; SPARASSODONTA; THYLACOLEONIDAE;

EID: 79955771883     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2031     Document Type: Article

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