Morphology of the enamel-dentine junction in sections of anthropoid primate maxillary molars

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 292-301

  Olejniczak, Anthony J ^a   Gilbert, Christopher C ^b   Martin, Lawrence B ^b   Smith, Tanya M ^a   Ulhaas, Lilian ^c   Grine, Frederick E ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anthropoid primates; Ceboid; Cercopithecoid; Dental evolution; Discriminant function analysis; EDJ; Enamel dentine junction; Hominoid; Taxonomic discrimination

Indexed keywords

ENAMEL; FOSSIL RECORD; MORPHOLOGY; PRIMATE; TAXONOMY;

CERCOPITHECOIDEA; HOMINOIDEA; PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 34548317518     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.04.006     Document Type: Article

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