Dietary specializations and diversity in feeding ecology of the earliest stem mammals

Nature

Volumn 512, Issue 7514, 2014, Pages 303-305

  Gill, Pamela G ^a   Purnell, Mark A ^b   Crumpton, Nick ^a,e   Brown, Kate Robson ^a   Gostling, Neil J ^a,f   Stampanoni, M ^c,d   Rayfield, Emily J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BURROWING; DENTITION; EVOLUTION; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAMMAL; NICHE PARTITIONING; SPECIALIZATION; SWIMMING; TRIASSIC;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMECHANICS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; FEEDING; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; KUEHNEOTHERIUM; LEPIDOPTERA; MAMMAL; MORGANUCODON; NONHUMAN; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; TOOTH; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; JAW; MAMMALS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY; TOOTH;

EID: 84906541068     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13622     Document Type: Article

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