Late Middle Eocene primate from Myanmar and the initial anthropoid colonization of Africa

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 10293-10297

  Chaimanee, Yaowalak ^a   Chavasseau, Olivier ^a   Beard, K Christopher ^b   Kyaw, Aung Aung ^c   Soe, Aung Naing ^d   Sein, Chit ^e   Lazzari, Vincent ^a   Marivaux, Laurent ^f   Marandat, Bernard ^f   Swe, Myat ^c   Rugbumrung, Mana ^g   Lwin, Thit ^h   Valentin, Xavier ^a   Thein, Zin Maung Maung ⁱ   Jaeger, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^c Ministry of Culture   (Myanmar)

^d Defence Services Academy   (Myanmar)

^e Hinthada University   (Myanmar)

^f INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^g Department of Mineral Resources ^*  (Thailand)

^h Department of Geology   (Myanmar)

ⁱ University of Mandalay   (Myanmar)

Author keywords

Afrotarsiidae; Eosimiidae; Paleobiogeography; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

AFRASIA DJIJIDAE; AFRICA; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; LUTETIAN; MOLAR TOOTH; MYANMAR; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIMIAN; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; HOMINIDAE; MYANMAR; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES;

AFROTARSIUS; EOSIMIIDAE; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 84862988510     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1200644109     Document Type: Article

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