New reconstruction of the Moroto hominoid snout and a reassessment of its affinities to Afropithecus turkanensis

Human Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 1-19

  Pickford, M ^a,b  

^a l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Hominoidea; Middle Miocene; Moroto; Splanchnocranium; Uganda

Indexed keywords

EID: 0842296259     PISSN: 03939375     EISSN: 1824310X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02436425     Document Type: Article

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