Preliminary notes on a newly discovered skull of the extinct monkey Antillothrix from Hispaniola and the origin of the Greater Antillean monkeys

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 124-128

  Kay, Richard F ^a   Hunt, Kevin ^b   Beeker, Charles ^b   Conrad, Geoffrey ^b   Johnson, Claudia ^b   Keller, Jessica ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropoidea; Paleontology; Platyrrhini; Primate evolution; West Indies

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIMATE; SKULL;

PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 78649444262     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

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