Variation in Craniomandibular Morphology and Sexual Dimorphism in Pantherines and the Sabercat Smilodon fatalis

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Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Christiansen, Per ^a   Harris, John M ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b George C Page Museum   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; CRANIOMANDIBULAR MORPHOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PANTHERA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMILODON FATALIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FELIDAE; FEMALE; MALE; MANDIBLE; PANTHERA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SKULL;

FELIDAE; PANTHERA; PANTHERA LEO; PANTHERA LEO PERSICA; SMILODON; SMILODON FATALIS; UNCIA;

EID: 84868144331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048352     Document Type: Article

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