New insights into mid-late pleistocene fossil hominin paranasal sinus morphology

Anatomical Record

Volumn 291, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1506-1516

  Zollikofer, Christoph P E ^a   Ponce De León, Marcia S ^a   Schmitz, Ralf W ^b   Stringer, Christopher B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fossil; Hominins; Paranasal sinus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DENTITION; FOSSIL; HAPLORHINI; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PARANASAL SINUS; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SKULL; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DENTITION; FOSSILS; HAPLORHINI; HOMINIDAE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PALEONTOLOGY; PARANASAL SINUSES; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58149348580     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.20779     Document Type: Article

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