Oldest known pantherine skull and evolution of the tiger

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Mazák, Ji H ^a   Christiansen, Per ^b   Kitchener, Andrew C ^c  

^a Shanghai Science and Technology Museum   (China)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MASS; BONE STRUCTURE; CHINA; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTITION; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; MANDIBLE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PANTHERA; PANTHERA ZDANSKYI; PHYLOGENY; SKULL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TIGER; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PALEONTOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; PANTHERA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOSSILS; MALE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SKULL; TIGERS;

EID: 80053912435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025483     Document Type: Article

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