Late middle Eocene epoch of Libya yields earliest known radiation of African anthropoids

Nature

Volumn 467, Issue 7319, 2010, Pages 1095-1098

  Jaeger, Jean Jacques ^a   Beard, K Christopher ^b   Chaimanee, Yaowalak ^c   Salem, Mustafa ^d   Benammi, Mouloud ^a   Hlal, Osama ^d   Coster, Pauline ^a   Bilal, Awad A ^e   Duringer, Philippe ^f   Schuster, Mathieu ^a   Valentin, Xavier ^a   Marandat, Bernard ^g   Marivaux, Laurent ^g   Métais, Eddy ^h   Hammuda, Omar ^d   Brunet, Michel ^a,i  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^c Department of Mineral Resources ^*  (Thailand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIPOLI   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BENGHAZI   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^g INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^h TOTAL   (France)

ⁱ l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLADISTICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRETACEOUS; EOCENE; FOSSIL RECORD; PRIMATE; RADIATION BALANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLADISTICS; EOCENE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN; RADIATION; SPECIES; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA; ASIA;

OLIGOPITHECIDAE; PARAPITHECIDAE; PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 78049355846     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09425     Document Type: Article

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