The importance of Messel for interpreting Eocene Holarctic mammalian faunas

Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 631-647

  Rose, Kenneth D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridger Formation; Ecomorphology; Fossil Butte Member (Green River Formation); Mammalian skeletal anatomy; Vastan local fauna (Gujarat, India); Willwood Formation

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ECOMORPHOLOGY; EOCENE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOLARCTIC REGION; MAMMAL; OSTEOLOGY; PALEOBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PRESERVATION; STOMACH CONTENT; TAXONOMY;

GUJARAT; INDIA;

ANIMALIA; ARTIODACTYLA; BUXOLESTES; LEPTICTIDIUM; MACROSCELIDEA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA;

EID: 84871608597     PISSN: 18671594     EISSN: 18671608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12549-012-0090-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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