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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Tetrapoda"”.
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Tetrapod phylogeny as inferred from 18S and 28S ribosomal-RNA sequence comparisons
The superclass Tetrapoda consists of several well defined monophyletic taxa: Anura, Urodela, Gymnophiona, Testudinata, Squamata, Rhychocephalia, Crocodilia, Aves and Mammalia. The relationships among these groups, however, is controversial. Neither paleontological evidence nor morphological, …
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A New Quantitative Method for the Taxonomic Identification of Tetrapods
The rarity of good fossil samples throughout geologic time frequently makes fossil identification difficult. This dissertation presents a new, multivariate, statistically validated method to identify tetrapods based on quantification of the shapes of microstructural features in cortical bone of the …