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Cranial Remain from Tunisia Provides New Clues for the Origin and Evolution of Sirenia (Mammalia, Afrotheria) in Africa

Sea cows (manatees, dugongs) are the only living marine mammals to feed solely on aquatic plants. Unlike whales or dolphins (Cetacea), the earliest evolutionary history of sirenians is poorly documented, and limited to a few fossils including skulls and skeletons of two genera composing the stem fam...

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Autores principales: Benoit, Julien, Adnet, Sylvain, El Mabrouk, Essid, Khayati, Hayet, Ben Haj Ali, Mustapha, Marivaux, Laurent, Merzeraud, Gilles, Merigeaud, Samuel, Vianey-Liaud, Monique, Tabuce, Rodolphe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3546994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23342128
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054307