A Middle Miocene hominoid from Thailand and orangutan origins

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6927, 2003, Pages 61-65

  Chaimanee, Yaowalak ^a   Jolly, Dominique ^b   Benammi, Mouloud ^c   Tafforeau, Paul ^b   Duzer, Danielle ^b   Moussa, Issam ^b   Jaeger, Jean Jacques ^b  

^a Department of Mineral Resources ^*  (Thailand)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY;

FACIAL-PALATAL SIMILARITIES;

BIODIVERSITY;

DENTITION; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMATE;

ARTICLE; FAUNA; FLORA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MIOCENE; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THAILAND; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT; TOOTH MALFORMATION;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POLLEN; PONGO PYGMAEUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THAILAND; TOOTH;

THAILAND;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; GRIPHOPITHECUS; HOMINOIDEA; PONGO; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037422110     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01449     Document Type: Article

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