Court, Nicholas

3 publications

Court, Nicholas (detail)
1990Periotic anatomy of Arsinoitherium (Mammalia, Embrithopoda) and its phylogenetic implications.
Jour. Vert. Pal. 10(2): 170-182. 2 tabs. 4 figs. June 21, 1990.
—Compares the ear region of Arsinoitherium with those of Prorastomus and other ungulates; concludes that embrithopods are more closely related to proboscideans than are sirs.
Court, Nicholas; Jaeger, Jean-Jacques (detail)
1991Anatomy of the periotic bone in the Eocene proboscidean Numidotherium koholense: an example of parallel evolution in the inner ear of tethytheres.
C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris 312, Sér. II: 559-565. 1 pl.
—French summ. Compares the cochlear foramina in an early proboscidean, Trichechus, and Prorastomus, concluding that a supposed tethythere synapomorphy was evolved in parallel in sirs. and proboscideans.
Court, Nicholas (detail)
1994The periotic of Moeritherium (Mammalia, Proboscidea): homology or homoplasy in the ear region of Tethytheria McKenna, 1975?
Zool. Jour. Linn. Soc. 112(1-2): 13-28. 4 figs. Sept./Oct. 1994.
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