Endocranial cast and morphology of the olfactory bulb of Amphipithecus mogaungensis (latest middle Eocene of Myanmar)

Primates

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 137-144

  Takai, Masanaru ^a   Shigehara, Nobuo ^a   Egi, Naoko ^a   Tsubamoto, Takehisa ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amphipithecus; Endocranial cast; Middle Eocene; Olfactory bulb; Pondaung primates

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; EOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIMATE;

MYANMAR;

ADAPIFORMES; AMPHIPITHECUS; AMPHIPITHECUS MOGAUNGENSIS; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; MYANMAR; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; FOSSILS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MYANMAR; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0038313063     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-002-0027-3     Document Type: Article

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