Dental microwear texture analysis of two families of subfossil lemurs from Madagascar

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 405-416

  Scott, J R ^a   Godfrey, L R ^b   Jungers, W L ^c   Scott, R S ^d   Simons, E L ^e   Teaford, M F ^f   Ungar, P S ^a   Walker, A ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Rutgers University   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeolemur; Diet; Hadropithecus; Megaladapis; Teeth

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; DENTITION; DIET; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; PRIMATE; TAXONOMY; TEXTURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

ARCHAEOLEMUR; ARCHAEOLEMURIDAE; HADROPITHECUS; LEMURIDAE; MEGALADAPIDAE; MEGALADAPIS; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 64449084558     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.11.003     Document Type: Article

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