3D techniques and fossil identification: An elephant shrew hemi-mandible from the Malapa site

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 107, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages

  Val, Aurore ^a   Carlson, Kristian J ^a   Steininger, Christine ^a   Kibii, Job M ^a   Churms, Cecil ^b   Kuhn, Brian F ^a   Berger, Lee R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b De Beers Group   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION; DATA SET; FOSSIL RECORD; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SMALL MAMMAL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

ELEPHANTULUS;

EID: 80855129404     PISSN: 00382353     EISSN: 19967489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4102/sajs.v107i11/12.583     Document Type: Article

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