New oligocene primate from Saudi Arabia and the divergence of apes and old world monkeys

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7304, 2010, Pages 360-364

  Zalmout, Iyad S ^a   Sanders, William J ^a   MacLatchy, Laura M ^a   Gunnell, Gregg F ^a   Al Mufarreh, Yahya A ^b   Ali, Mohammad A ^b   Nasser, Abdul Azziz H ^b   Al Masari, Abdu M ^b   Al Sobhi, Salih A ^b   Nadhra, Ayman O ^b   Matari, Adel H ^b   Wilson, Jeffrey A ^a   Gingerich, Philip D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SAUDI GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; CLADISTICS; CRANIUM; DIVERGENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; GENOME; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE; OLIGOCENE; PRIMATE;

APE; ARTICLE; CATARRHINI; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CLADISTICS; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOSSIL; FOSSIL HOMINOID; MIOCENE; MORPHOTYPE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOCENE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAADANIUS HIJAZENSIS; SAUDI ARABIA; SKULL; SYNAPOMORPHY;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CERCOPITHECIDAE; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SAUDI ARABIA; SKULL;

SAUDI ARABIA;

CATARRHINI; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CERCOPITHECOIDEA; HOMINOIDEA; HOMO; PRIMATES;

EID: 77954627468     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09094     Document Type: Article

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