Darwinius masillae is a strepsirrhine-a reply to Franzen et al. (2009)

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 567-573

  Williams, Blythe A ^a   Kay, Richard F ^a   Christopher Kirk, E ^b   Ross, Callum F ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropoid origins; Eocene; Primate phylogeny

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; EOCENE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; TAXONOMY;

PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 77958186414     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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