Form and function within a phylogenetic framework: Locomotory habits of extant predators and some Miocene Sparassodonta (Metatheria)

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 224-251

  Ercoli, Marcos Darío ^a   Prevosti, Francisco Juan ^a   Álvarez, Alicia ^b  

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

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS NATURALES Y MUSEO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Allometry; Comparative methods; Geometric morphometrics; Locomotion; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

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

EID: 84860001886     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00793.x     Document Type: Article

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