Body-mass estimation of sparassodonta species (mammalia, metatheria) of santacrucian age (early miocene) based on centroid sizes of postcraneal elements: Palaeoecological inferences;Estimación de masa de las especies de sparassodonta (mammalia, metatheria) de edad santacrucense (mioceno temprano) a partir del tamaño del centroide de los elementos apendiculares: Inferencias paleoecológicas

Ameghiniana

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 462-479

  Ercoli, Marcos Darío ^a   Prevosti, Francisco Juan ^a  

^a MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Body size; Comparative method; Paleoecology; Santacrucian age; Sparassodonta

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GUILD; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; MIOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS;

BORHYAENA TUBERATA; LYCOPSIS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; SPARASSODONTA; THYLACOSMILUS ATROX;

EID: 84859565345     PISSN: 00027014     EISSN: 18518044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5710/AMGH.v48i4(347)     Document Type: Article

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