New postcranial elements for the earliest Eocene fossil primate Teilhardina belgica

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 205-218

  Gebo, Daniel L ^a   Smith, Thierry ^b   Dagosto, Marian ^c  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ankle; Dormaal; Knee; Omomyidae; Positional behavior; Primate origins

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BODY MASS; EOCENE; FOSSIL RECORD; MORPHOTYPE; PRIMATE;

ADAPIFORMES; BELGICA; LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; OMOMYIDAE; PRIMATES; TARSIUS SYRICHTA; TEILHARDINA;

EID: 84863525048     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.03.010     Document Type: Article

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