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Locomotion in Extinct Giant Kangaroos: Were Sthenurines Hop-Less Monsters?
Sthenurine kangaroos (Marsupialia, Diprotodontia, Macropodoidea) were an extinct subfamily within the family Macropodidae (kangaroos and rat-kangaroos). These “short-faced browsers” first appeared in the middle Miocene, and radiated in the Plio-Pleistocene into a diversity of mostly large-bodied for...
Autores principales: | Janis, Christine M., Buttrill, Karalyn, Figueirido, Borja |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4198187/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25333823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0109888 |
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