The oldest known anthropoid postcranial fossils and the early evolution of higher primates

Nature

Volumn 404, Issue 6775, 2000, Pages 276-278

  Gebo, Daniel L ^a   Dagosto, Marian ^b   Beard, K Christopher ^c   Qi, Tao ^d   Wang, Jingwen ^d  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHINA; MYANMAR;

ANTHROPOIDEA; EOSIMIIDAE; HOMINIDAE; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 0034673757     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35005066     Document Type: Article

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