Folivory or fruit/seed predation for Mesopithecus, an earliest colobine from the late Miocene of Eurasia?

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 732-738

  Merceron, Gildas ^a   Scott, Jessica ^b   Scott, Robert S ^c   Geraads, Denis ^d   Spassov, Nikolai ^e   Ungar, Peter S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^e BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Cercopithecidae; Diet; Microwear; Neogene; Teeth

Indexed keywords

DIET; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; PREDATION; PRIMATE; TOOTH;

EURASIA;

ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA PALLIATA; CEBIDAE; CEBUS APELLA; CERCOCEBUS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; COLOBINAE; LOPHOCEBUS ALBIGENA; PRIMATES; TRACHYPITHECUS CRISTATUS;

EID: 70449724647     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.06.009     Document Type: Article

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