Enamel thickness in the middle miocene great apes anoiapithecus, pierolapithecus and dryopithecus

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1691, 2010, Pages 2237-2245

  Alba, D M ^a   Fortuny, J ^a   Moya Sola S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anoiapithecus; Dryopithecus; Hominidae; Kenyapithecini; Pierolapithecus; Relative enamel thickness (ret)

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DISPERSAL; ENAMEL; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMATE; TOMOGRAPHY;

CATALONIA; SPAIN; VALLES-PENEDES BASIN;

EID: 77955362494     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0218     Document Type: Article

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