New fossil materials of the earliest new world monkey, Branisella boliviana, and the problem of platyrrhine origins

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 263-281

  Takai, Masanaru ^a   Anaya, Federico ^b   Shigehara, Nobuo ^a   Setoguchi, Takeshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Museo Nacional de Historia Natural   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Branisella; Late Oligocene; Platyrrhine origins; Proteopithecus; Salla

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; CEBIDAE; DENTITION; DIET; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0033965098     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(200002)111:2<263::AID-AJPA10>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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