An additional specimen of a large-bodied Miocene hominoid from Chiang Muan, northern Thailand

Primates

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-70

  Kunimatsu, Yutaka ^a   Ratanasthien, Benjavun ^a   Nakaya, Hideo ^c   Saegusa, Haruo ^d   Nagaoka, Shinji ^e   Suganuma, Yûsuke ^f   Fukuchi, Akira ^g   Udomkan, Bantita ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^e NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^g OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hominoidea; Lufengpithecus; Miocene; Southeast Asia; Thailand

Indexed keywords

DENTITION; FOSSIL RECORD; MIOCENE; NEW RECORD; PRIMATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; MOLAR TOOTH; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; THAILAND;

ANIMALS; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; MOLAR; PALEODONTOLOGY; THAILAND;

ASIA; CHIANG MUAN BASIN; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; NORTHERN REGION [THAILAND]; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND; WORLD;

HOMINOIDEA; HOMO; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 13744251026     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-004-0096-6     Document Type: Article

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