Oldest cingulate skulls provide congruence between morphological and molecular scenarios of armadillo evolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1719, 2011, Pages 2791-2797

  Billet, Guillaume ^a   Hautier, Lionel ^b   de Muizon, Christian ^c   Valentin, Xavier ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Bolivia; Calibration point; Fossil record; Palaeogene; Phylogeny; Tolypeutinae

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; FOSSIL RECORD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NEOGENE; PALEOGENE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SKULL;

ANIMAL; ARMADILLO; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; EDENTATA; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SKULL;

ANIMALS; ARMADILLOS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BOLIVIA; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY; SKULL; XENARTHRA;

BOLIVIA;

ARMADILLO; CINGULATA; MAMMALIA; XENARTHRA;

EID: 80051515039     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2443     Document Type: Article

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