Frontal fusion: Collapse of another anthropoid synapomorphy

Anatomical Record

Volumn 291, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 308-317

  Rosenberger, Alfred L ^a,b,c   Pagano, Anthony S ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropoids; Frontal bone; Interfrontal suture; Postorbital septum; Primate phylogeny; Skulls; Tarsiers

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CLASSIFICATION; CRANIAL SUTURE; EVOLUTION; FRONTAL BONE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAPLORHINI; HISTOLOGY; MASTICATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CRANIAL SUTURES; EVOLUTION; FRONTAL BONE; HAPLORHINI; MASTICATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 42149150969     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20647     Document Type: Article

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