The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution

Nature

Volumn 498, Issue 7452, 2013, Pages 60-64

  Ni, Xijun ^a,b   Gebo, Daniel L ^c   Dagosto, Marian ^d   Meng, Jin ^b   Tafforeau, Paul ^e   Flynn, John J ^b   Christopher Beard, K ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^f SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; EOCENE; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMATE;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLADISTICS; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; LEMURIDAE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; SYNCHROTRON; TARSIIFORM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHEIROGALEIDAE; CHINA; DENTITION; FOOT BONES; FORELIMB; FOSSILS; HINDLIMB; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SKELETON; SKULL; TAIL;

CHINA;

LEMURIDAE; MAMMALIA; MUS MINUTOIDES; PRIMATES; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 84878728771     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12200     Document Type: Article

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