Paleodiet of extinct platyrrhines with emphasis on the Caribbean forms: Three-dimensional geometric morphometrics of mandibular second molars

Anatomical Record

Volumn 294, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2073-2091

  Cooke, Siobhán B ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Dental relief; La Venta; Miocene fossils; Paleodiet; Patagonia; Platyrrhine dentition

Indexed keywords

ALOUATTA; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CARNIVORE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLASSIFICATION; COLOMBIA; DIET; EXTINCT SPECIES; FOSSIL; FRUGIVORE; JAMAICA; LAVENTIANA; MIOCENE; MOLAR TOOTH; MORPHOMETRICS; NEOSAIMIRI; NONHUMAN; OMNIVORE; PARALOUATTA; PATASOLA; PLATYRRHINI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIRTONIA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; XENOTHRIX;

ANIMALS; CARIBBEAN REGION; DIET; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MANDIBLE; MOLAR; PALEODONTOLOGY; PLATYRRHINI; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

PARALOUATTA; STIRTONIA;

EID: 81255198344     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.21502     Document Type: Article

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