The Anterior Dentition of Adapids and Anthropoid Origins

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 59-84

  Greenfield, Leonard O ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adapids; Anterior dentition; Anthropoid origins; Canine honing; Ceboidea; Cercopithecoidea; Fossil primates; Hominoidea; Notharctus; Premolar morphology; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

EID: 2742582654     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000156872     Document Type: Review

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