Phylogenetic implications of the first African Middle Miocene hominoid frontal bone from Otavi, Namibia;Implications phylogénétiques du premier os frontal d'un Hominoïdea du Miocène moyen d'Otavi, Namibie

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes

Volumn 325, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 459-466

  Pickford, Martin ^a   Moya Sola, Salvador ^b   Köhler, Meike ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEONTOLOGIA MIQUEL CRUSAFONT   (Spain)

Author keywords

Frontal bone; Hominoidea; Middle Miocene; Namibia; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; HOMINOIDEA; PONGO;

FRONTAL BONE; GREAT APE; HOMINOIDEA; MIOCENE; PHYLOGENY;

NAMIBIA, OTAVI;

EID: 0031410369     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1251-8050(97)81165-2     Document Type: Article

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