Functional morphology and affinities of the hominoid mandible from Çandir

CFS Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg

Volumn , Issue 240, 2003, Pages 89-111

  Güleç, Erksin ^a   Begun, David R ^b  

^a Dil ve Tarih Cografya Fak Sihhiye   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Middle Miocene hominoid; Robust mandible; Stem hominid; Thick molar enamel

Indexed keywords

ENAMEL; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMATE; SKULL;

TURKEY;

AVES; GRIPHOPITHECUS; GRIPHOPITHECUS ALPANI; HOMINIDAE; HOMINOIDEA; HOMO; KENYAPITHECUS; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037492579     PISSN: 03414116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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