Earliest miocene hominoid from Southeast Asia

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 99-108

  Kunimatsu, Yutaka ^a   Ratanasthien, Benjavun ^b   Nakaya, Hideo ^c   Saegusa, Haruo ^d   Nagaoka, Shinji ^e  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^e NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eurasia; Hominoid dispersal; Lufengpithecus; Middle Miocene; Sivapithecus; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ENAMEL; FOSSIL; MOLAR TOOTH; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIMATE; REVIEW; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

ANIMALS; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MOLAR; PONGO PYGMAEUS; THAILAND;

EID: 2642583316     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.10344     Document Type: Review

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