A dating success story: Genomes and fossils converge on placental mammal origins

EvoDevo

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Goswami, Anjali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cretaceous Paleogene mass extinction; Divergence estimates; Fossil record; Mammals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867618797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20419139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-9139-3-18     Document Type: Note

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