Constraint and adaptation in the evolution of carnivoran skull shape

Paleobiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 490-518

  Figueirido, Borja ^a,d   MacLeod, Norman ^b   Krieger, Jonathan ^b   De Renzi, Miquel ^c   Pérez Claros, Juan Antonio ^a   Palmqvist, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANATOMY; CARNIVORE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DIET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; SKULL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CANIDAE; CARNIVORA; FELIDAE; HYAENIDAE; URSIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79958717165     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/09062.1     Document Type: Article

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