Dental microwear variability on buccal tooth enamel surfaces of extant catarrhini and the miocene fossil Dryopithecus laietanus (Hominoidea)

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 325-341

  Galbany, J ^a   Moya Sola S ^b   Perez Perez A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Museu Paleontològic Miquel Crusafont   (Spain)

Author keywords

Buccal microwear; Cercopithecoidea; Dryopithecus laietanus; Hominoidea; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATARRHINI; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENAMEL; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; ODONTOMETRY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOOTH; TOOTH DISEASE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CATARRHINI; DENTAL ENAMEL; DIET; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FOSSILS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; ODONTOMETRY; PALEODONTOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOOTH; TOOTH ATTRITION;

CATARRHINI; CERCOPITHECOIDEA; CERCOPITHECUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CERCOPITHECUS MITIS; CERCOPITHECUS NEGLECTUS; COLOBINAE; COLOBUS; DRYOPITHECUS; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINOIDEA; OREOPITHECUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAPIO ANUBIS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 30644473765     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000089531     Document Type: Article

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