The oldest North American primate and mammalian biogeography during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3815-3818

  Beard, K Christopher ^a  

^a SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Omomyidae; Phylogeny; Teilhardina; Wasatchian

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; EOCENE; FOSSIL; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PALEOCENE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISPERSION; PRECIPITATION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATIGRAPHY; TEILHARDINA MAGNOLIANA; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; DENTITION; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY;

MAMMALIA; OMOMYIDAE; PRIMATES; TEILHARDINA;

ANIMALS; DENTITION; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; MISSISSIPPI; NORTH AMERICA; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES;

EID: 41649085021     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0710180105     Document Type: Article

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