Earliest record of Platychoerops (Primates, Plesiadapidae), a new species from Mouras Quarry, Mont de Berru, France

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 329-346

  Boyer, Doug M ^a,b,c   Costeur, Loïc ^d   Lipman, Yaron ^e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c New York Consortium of Evolutionary Primatology   (United States)

^d NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

automated correspondence; character displacement; OPC; PETM; primate evolution; RFI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHIROMYOIDES CAMPANICUS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; FAUNA; FRANCE; PALEOCENE; PLATYCHOEROPS ANTIQUUS; PLATYCHOEROPS DAUBREI; PLESIADAPIS COOKEI; PLESIADAPIS TRICUSPIDENS; PRIMATE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; FRANCE; MAMMALS; PALEODONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; TOOTH;

EID: 84867576423     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22119     Document Type: Article

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