A new orang-utan relative from the Late Miocene of Thailand

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6973, 2004, Pages 439-441

  Chaimanee, Yaowalak ^a   Suteethorn, Varavudh ^a   Jintasakul, Pratueng ^b   Vidthayanon, Chavalit ^c   Marandat, Bernard ^d   Jaeger, Jean Jacques ^d  

^a Department of Mineral Resources ^*  (Thailand)

^b NAKHON RATCHASIMA RAJABHAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c Department of Fisheries   (Thailand)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE;

FOSSILS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

FOSSIL RECORD; MIOCENE; NEW SPECIES; PRIMATE;

ARTICLE; FOSSIL; MIOCENE; ORANG UTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; THAILAND;

ANIMALS; CHINA; FOSSILS; JAW; MANDIBLE; PHYLOGENY; PONGO PYGMAEUS; THAILAND;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

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

EID: 0842264183     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02245     Document Type: Article

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