Preliminary analysis of Nacholapithecus scapula and clavicle from Nachola, Kenya

Primates

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 97-104

  Senut, Brigitte ^a   Nakatsukasa, Masato ^b   Kunimatsu, Yutaka ^b   Nakano, Yoshihiko ^c   Takano, Tomo ^b   Tsujikawa, Hiroshi ^b   Shimizu, Daisuke ^b   Kagaya, Miyuki ^b   Ishida, Hidemi ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clavicle; Kenya; Middle Miocene; Nacholapithecus; Scapula

Indexed keywords

MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIMATE; SKELETAL REMAINS;

ANIMAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CLAVICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; KENYA; PHYSIOLOGY; SCAPULA; SHOULDER;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CLAVICLE; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; KENYA; SCAPULA; SHOULDER JOINT;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; NACHOLA; RIFT VALLEY; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; ANIMALIA; EQUATORIUS; NASALIS; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES; PROCONSUL;

EID: 2442596152     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-003-0073-5     Document Type: Article

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