Victoriapithecus: The key to old world monkey and catarrhine origins

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 155-174

  Benefit, Brenda R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cercopithecoid; Dentition; Diet; Evolution; Fossil; Hominoid; Kenyapithecus; Locomotion; Maboko Island; Miocene; Monkey; Paleoecology; Postcrania; Primate; Victoriapithecus

Indexed keywords

CERCOPITHECIDAE; CERCOPITHECOIDEA; COLOBINAE; HOMINOIDEA; KENYAPITHECUS; PRIMATES; VICTORIAPITHECUS;

EID: 0033242414     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6505(1999)7:5<155::AID-EVAN2>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Review

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