Patterns of astragalar fibular facet orientation in extant and fossil primates and their evolutionary implications

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 420-447

  Boyer, Doug M ^a   Seiffert, Erik R ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ancestral states; astragalus; Cantius; fibula; haplorhine; strepsirrhine; talus; Teilhardina

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BODY SIZE; CALLITRICHINAE; CATARRHINI; CEBUS; FIBULA; FOSSIL; FOSSIL PRIMATE; HYLOBATIDAE; LOCOMOTION; MEASUREMENT ERROR; ORANG UTAN; ORIENTATION; PALEOGENE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PITHECIIDAE; PROSIMIAN; SCANDENTIA; SIMIAN; SYNAPOMORPHY; TALUS; TARSIIFORM;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FIBULA; FOSSILS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TALUS; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84879338089     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22283     Document Type: Article

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