The Italian fossil primate record: Recent finds and their geological context

Geobios

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 675-686

  Gentili, Sergio ^a   Mottura, Alberto ^b   Rook, Lorenzo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fossil primates; Italy; Macaca; Mesopithecus; Oreopithecus

Indexed keywords

MIOCENE; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE;

ITALY;

CERCOPITHECOIDEA; HOMINIDAE; HOMINOIDEA; HOMO; MACACA; MACACA SYLVANUS; MESOPITHECUS PENTELICUS; OREOPITHECUS; OREOPITHECUS BAMBOLII; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032456663     PISSN: 00166995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6995(98)80054-5     Document Type: Article

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