New body mass estimates for Omomys carteri, a middle Eocene primate from North America

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-52

  Payseur, Bret A ^a,d   Covert, Herbert H ^b   Vinyard, Christopher J ^a,c   Dagosto, Marian ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Fossil primates; Omomyids; Regression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; FOSSIL; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE;

EID: 0032930621     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199905)109:1<41::AID-AJPA5>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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