New wrist bones of the Malagasy giant subfossil lemurs

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 635-650

  Hamrick, Mark W ^a   Simons, Elwyn L ^b   Jungers, William L ^c  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Babakotia; Carpal morphology; Climbing; Palaeopropithecus; Suspensory posture

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; LOCOMOTION;

MADAGASCAR;

ANIMALIA; BABAKOTIA; BABAKOTIA RADOFILAI; CHOLOEPUS; EDENTATA; HOMO; LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; MEGALADAPIS; MEGALADAPIS EDWARDSI; MEGALADAPIS MADAGESCARIENSIS; MESOPROPITHECUS; MESOPROPITHECUS DOLICHOBRACHION; PALAEOPROPITHECUS; PALAEOPROPITHECUS INGENS; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034034868     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.1999.0372     Document Type: Article

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