Juvenile hominoid cranium from the terminal Miocene of Yunnan, China

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 31, 2013, Pages 3771-3779

  Ji, XuePing ^a,b   Jablonski, Nina G ^c   Su, Denise F ^d   Deng, ChengLong ^e   Flynn, Lawrence J ^f   You, YouShan ^g   Kelley, Jay ^h  

^a Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology   (China)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Zhaotong Institute of Cultural Relics   (China)

^h ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cranial morphology; fossil primates; hominoid phylogeny; Lufengpithecus; Miocene hominoid

Indexed keywords

CRANIA; HOMINOIDEA; LUFENGPITHECUS; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84887445204     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-013-6021-x     Document Type: Article

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