A new Middle Miocene tarsier from Thailand and the reconstruction of its orbital morphology using a geometric-morphometric method

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1714, 2011, Pages 1956-1963

  Chaimanee, Yaowalak ^a,b   Lebrun, Renaud ^c   Yamee, Chotima ^a   Jaeger, Jean Jacques ^b  

^a Department of Mineral Resources ^*  (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Miocene; Morphometrics; Orbit; Tarsiidae; Tarsius; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; CONVERGENCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FOSSIL RECORD; MIOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; NEW SPECIES; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; ORBIT DETERMINATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAXILLA; ORBIT; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; TARSIIFORM; THAILAND; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAXILLA; ORBIT; PALEODONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TARSIIDAE; THAILAND; TOOTH;

THAILAND;

PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES; TARSIIDAE; TARSIUS; TARSIUS SYRICHTA;

EID: 79957629273     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2062     Document Type: Article

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