DESCRIPTION OF THE RADIATION OF THE RODEN TIA (MAMMALIA) FROM THE LATE PALEOCENE TO THE MIOCENE - PHYLOGENETIC CONSEQUENCES

Authors
Citation
Jl. Hartenberger, DESCRIPTION OF THE RADIATION OF THE RODEN TIA (MAMMALIA) FROM THE LATE PALEOCENE TO THE MIOCENE - PHYLOGENETIC CONSEQUENCES, Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Sciences de la terre et des planetes, 326(6), 1998, pp. 439-444
Citations number
32
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
ISSN journal
12518050
Volume
326
Issue
6
Year of publication
1998
Pages
439 - 444
Database
ISI
SICI code
1251-8050(1998)326:6<439:DOTROT>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
Reviewing the ancestor-descendant relationships of first genera repres entatives of 52 fossil and extant families of rodents allow the buildi ng of a phylogenetic tree of Rodentia. The shaping of this tree sugges ts the distribution of these families in six suborders and six infraor ders. (C) Academie des sciences/Elsevier, Paris.