The shape of the mandibular corpus in large fissiped carnivores: allometry, function and phylogeny
Authors:
- Carlo MeloroCMCarlo Meloro
- Pasquale RaiaPRPasquale Raia
- Paolo PirasPPPaolo Piras
- Paul O'HigginsPOPaul O'Higgins
Open Access
- 25 November 2008
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
- Vol. 154 (4) , 832-845
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