Evidence for a grooming claw in a north american adapiform primate: Implications for anthropoid origins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Maiolino, Stephanie ^a   Boyer, Doug M ^b   Bloch, Jonathan I ^c   Gilbert, Christopher C ^d   Groenke, Joseph ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; DARWINIUS MASILLAE; EOCENE; FOSSIL ANIMAL; GROOMING CLAW; MORPHOLOGY; NAIL; NONHUMAN; NOTHARCTUS TENEBROSUS; PHALANX; PRIMATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMIAN; TAXONOMY; TEGULAE; UNITED STATES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GROOMING; HAPLORHINI; HISTOLOGY; HOOF AND CLAW; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TOE PHALANX;

ADAPIFORMES; PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GROOMING; HAPLORHINI; HOOF AND CLAW; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TOE PHALANGES;

EID: 84855599546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029135     Document Type: Article

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