New hominoid genus from the Middle Miocene of Nachola, Kenya

Anthropological Science

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 189-191

  Ishida, Hidemi ^a   Kunimatsu, Yutaka ^a   Nakatsukasa, Masato ^a   Nakano, Yoshihiko ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

East africa; Hominoid; Kenya; Kenyapithecus; Middle Miocene

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033422151     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.107.189     Document Type: Article

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