Highly specialized mammalian skulls from the Late Cretaceous of South America

Nature

Volumn 479, Issue 7371, 2011, Pages 98-102

  Rougier, Guillermo W ^a   Apesteguía, Sebastián ^b,c   Gaetano, Leandro C ^d  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES Y ANTROPOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; CRETACEOUS; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FOSSIL RECORD; GONDWANA; JURASSIC; MARSUPIAL; PALEONTOLOGY; TOOTH;

ARTICLE; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL ANIMAL; JAW; MOLAR TOOTH; NONHUMAN; PREMOLAR TOOTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; JAW; MAMMALS; PHYLOGENY; SKULL; SOUTH AMERICA; TOOTH;

EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

DRYOLESTOIDEA; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA;

EID: 80455123726     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10591     Document Type: Article

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