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Fossil and molecular evidence constrain scenarios for the early evolutionary and biogeographic history of hystricognathous rodents.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Sept 2009
Sallam Hesham M, Seiffert Erik R, Steiper Michael E, Simons Elwyn L
Abstract excerpt
The early evolutionary and paleobiogeographic history of the diverse rodent clade Hystricognathi, which contains Hystricidae (Old World porcupines), Caviomorpha (the endemic South American rodents), and African Phiomorpha (cane rats, dassie rats, and blesmols) is of great interest to students of mammalian evolution, but remains poorly understood because of a poor early fossil record. Here we describe the oldest...
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