A fossil primate of uncertain affinities from the earliest late eocene of Egypt

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

Volumn 107, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 9712-9717

  Seiffert, Erik R ^a   Simons, Elwyn L ^b   Boyer, Doug M ^a   Perry, Jonathan M G ^c   Ryan, Timothy M ^d   Sallam, Hesham M ^e  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Anthropoidea; Fayum; Phylogeny; Strepsirrhini

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EGYPT; FOLIVORE; FOSSIL PRIMATE; GENETIC STABILITY; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NORTH AFRICA; NOSMIPS AENIGMATICUS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PREMOLAR TOOTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; TOPOGRAPHY; UPPER EOCENE;

ANIMALS; EGYPT; FOSSILS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; TIME FACTORS; TOOTH;

ADAPIFORMES; PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 77953094525     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001393107     Document Type: Article

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