Three new Jurassic euharamiyidan species reinforce early divergence of mammals

Nature

Volumn 514, Issue 7524, 2014, Pages 579-584

  Bi, Shundong ^a,b   Wang, Yuanqing ^a   Guan, Jian ^c   Sheng, Xia ^d   Meng, Jin ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Department of Paleontology Beijing Natural History Museum   (China)

^d SHENYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; DIVERGENCE; FOSSIL; JURASSIC; MAMMAL; NEW SPECIES; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY OSSICLE; CHINA; CLADISTICS; EUHARAMIYIDA; FOSSIL; JURASSIC; MAMMAL; MULTITUBERCULATA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SISTER GROUP; UPPER TRIASSIC; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; MANDIBLE; SKELETON; SKULL; TOOTH;

CHINA;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CHINA; FOSSILS; MAMMALS; MANDIBLE; PHYLOGENY; SKELETON; SKULL; TOOTH;

EID: 84908432606     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13718     Document Type: Article

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