Early tooth development, gestation, and season of birth in mammoths

Quaternary International

Volumn 255, Issue , 2012, Pages 196-205

  Rountrey, Adam N ^a   Fisher, Daniel C ^a   Tikhonov, Alexei N ^b   Kosintsev, Pavel A ^c   Lazarev, Pyotr A ^d   Boeskorov, Gennady ^e   Buigues, Bernard ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ANIMAL ECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d Institute of Applied Ecology of the North   (Russian Federation)

^e DIAMOND AND PRECIOUS METAL GEOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^f International Mammoth Committee   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; EXTINCTION; GROWTH; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LIFE HISTORY; MAMMOTH; MINERALIZATION; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PREGNANCY; TOOTH;

ELEPHANTIDAE; MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS;

EID: 84857446289     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.06.006     Document Type: Article

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