Earliest complete dentition of an anthropoid primate from the Late Middle Eocene of Shanxi Province, China

Science

Volumn 272, Issue 5258, 1996, Pages 82-85

  Beard, K Christopher ^a   Tong, Yongsheng ^b   Dawson, Mary R ^a   Wang, Jingwen ^b   Huang, Xueshi ^b  

^a SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOID; DENTITION; EOCENE; EOSIMIAS; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

CHINA, SHANXI, ZHAILI;

EID: 0029749639     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.272.5258.82     Document Type: Article

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