Prediction of Direction of Chewing from Cranial and Dental Characters in Thomomys Pocket Gophers
- 25 February 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Mammalogy
- Vol. 69 (1) , 46-56
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1381746
Abstract
Three lines of evidence were used independently to predict directionality of chewing in the nine extant species of Thomomys pocket gophers. Cranial mThis publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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