First skull of Antillothrix bernensis, an extinct relict monkey from the Dominican Republic

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1702, 2011, Pages 67-74

  Rosenberger, Alfred L ^a,b,c,d   Cooke, Siobhán B ^b   Rímoli, Renato ^e   Ni, Xijun ^d,f   Cardoso, Luis ^g  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^e Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo   (Dominican Republic)

^f INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^g City University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Antillothrix; Caribbean; Dominican Republic; Fossil primates; Island relicts; Platyrrhines

Indexed keywords

CAVE; CRANIUM; DENTITION; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; MIOCENE; PRIMATE;

ARGENTINA; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC;

CALLITRICHIDAE; CEBIDAE; CEBUS; PARALOUATTA; PRIMATES; SAIMIRI;

EID: 78650361770     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1249     Document Type: Conference Paper

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