A radiation of arboreal basal eutherian mammals beginning in the Late Cretaceous of India

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 39, 2011, Pages 16333-16338

  Goswami, Anjali ^a   Prasad, Guntupalli V R ^b   Upchurch, Paul ^a   Boyer, Doug M ^c   Seiffert, Erik R ^d   Verma, Omkar ^e   Gheerbrant, Emmanuel ^f   Flynn, John J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^g DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Paleobiogeography; Phylogenetics; Placentals

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARBOREAL SPECIES; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CRETACEOUS; DECCANOLESTES; EUROPE; FOSSIL; INDIA; INSECTIVORE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PALEOCENE; PALEOCENE ADAPISORICULIDS; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION;

ANIMALS; FOSSILS; INDIA; MAMMALS;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 80053649399     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1108723108     Document Type: Article

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