A new method of dental microwear analysis: Application to extant primates and Ouranopithecus macedoniensis (Late Miocene of Greece)

Palaios

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 551-561

  Merceron, Gildas ^a,b   Blondel, Cecile ^a   De Bonis, Louis ^a   Koufos, Georges D ^c   Viriot, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DENTITION; FOSSIL; MIOCENE; PRIMATE; TOOTH; WEAR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANTHROPOIDEA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAN TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES; PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 29144459906     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2004.p04-17     Document Type: Article

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