Earliest colobine skeletons from Nakali, Kenya

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 365-382

  Nakatsukasa, Masato ^a   Mbua, Emma ^b   Sawada, Yoshihiro ^c   Sakai, Tetsuya ^c   Nakaya, Hideo ^d   Yano, Wataru ^a   Kunimatsu, Yutaka ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cercopithecinae; Colobinae; fossils; locomotion; Old World monkeys

Indexed keywords

APE; ARTICLE; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; FORELIMB; GREATER TROCHANTER; HUMERUS; HUMERUS HEAD; HYPOTHESIS; KENYA; MALE; METATARSAL BONE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ROTATION; SHOULDER; SKELETON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYNAPOMORPHY; TARSAL BONE; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; THUMB; TOOTH SIZE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; BONE AND BONES; CERCOPITHECIDAE; FEMALE; FOSSILS; KENYA; MALE; SKELETON;

EID: 77958196003     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21327     Document Type: Article

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