Femur length, body mass, and stature estimates of Orrorin tugenensis, a 6 Ma hominid from Kenya

Primates

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 171-178

  Nakatsukasa, Masato ^a   Pickford, Martin ^b   Egi, Naoko ^c   Senut, Brigitte ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

^c JAPAN MONKEY CENTRE   (Japan)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Bipedalism; Body mass estimate; Femur; Limb length; Orrorin tugenensis

Indexed keywords

BIPEDALISM; BODY MASS; HOMINID; PALEOBIOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMUR; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; KENYA; PALEONTOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMUR; HOMINIDAE; KENYA; PALEONTOLOGY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; RIFT VALLEY; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TUGEN HILLS;

HOMINIDAE; ORRORIN; ORRORIN TUGENENSIS; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 34250833248     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-007-0040-7     Document Type: Article

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