Talar morphology of azibiids, strepsirhine-related primates from the Eocene of Algeria: Phylogenetic affinities and locomotor adaptation

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 447-457

  Marivaux, Laurent ^a   Tabuce, Rodolphe ^a   Lebrun, Renaud ^a   Ravel, Anthony ^a   Adaci, Mohammed ^b   Mahboubi, M'hammed ^c   Bensalah, Mustapha ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TLEMCEN   (Algeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ORAN   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Azibius; Glib zegdou; Gour lazib; North africa; Paleogene prosimians

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; EOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOGENE; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY; TOOTH;

ALGERIA; MADAGASCAR;

ADAPIFORMES; CHEIROGALEIDAE; HAMMADA; LEMURIDAE; MEGALADAPIDAE; PRIMATES; SIMIAE; SIMIIFORMES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 80052260234     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.05.013     Document Type: Article

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