The Face of Strigorhysis: Implications of Another Tarsier-like, Large-Eyed Eocene North American Tarsiiform Primate

Anatomical Record

Volumn 294, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 797-812

  Rosenberger, Alfred L ^a,b,c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropoid origins; Fossils; Micro CT; Omomyids; Orbits; Strigorhysis; Tarsiers; Tarsius

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; EOCENE; EYEBALL; FACE; FOSSIL ANIMAL; MAXILLA; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROONEYIA; STRIGORHYSIS; SYNAPOMORPHY; TARSIER; TARSIIFORM; TARSIUS PUMULIS; TEILHARDINA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EYE; FACE; FOSSILS; TARSIIDAE;

OMOMYIDAE; PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES; TARSIUS; TARSIUS SYRICHTA; TEILHARDINA;

EID: 79955878106     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21367     Document Type: Article

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