Temnospondyli bite club: Ecomorphological patterns of the most diverse group of early tetrapods

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2040-2054

  Fortuny, J ^a   Marce Nogue J ^b   De Esteban Trivigno, S ^a   Gil, L ^b   Galobart, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Archegosauriformes; Direct biting; Edopoidea; Eryopidae; Feeding ecology; Finite element analysis (FEA); Geometric morphometrics; Stereospondyli; Temnospondyli

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; AMPHIBIAN; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC ORGANISM; ECOMORPHOLOGY; EXTINCTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GEOMETRY; LIZARD; MORPHOMETRY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHANEROZOIC; PHYLOGENETICS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRIASSIC;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKULL; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FOSSILS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKULL; VERTEBRATES;

AMPHIBIA; ERYOPIDAE; STEREOSPONDYLI; TEMNOSPONDYLI; TETRAPODA;

EID: 80051671527     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02338.x     Document Type: Article

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