Endocranial morphology of Palaeocene Plesiadapis tricuspidens and evolution of the early primate brain

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1781, 2014, Pages

  Orliac, Maeva J ^a   Ladevèze, Sandrine ^b   Gingerich, Philip D ^c   Lebrun, Renaud ^a   Smith, Thierry ^d  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d OD Earth and History of life   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Endocast; Euprimates; Plesiadapiforms; Vertebrate palaeontology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOSSIL RECORD; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOCENE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOCAST; EUPRIMATES; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PLESIADAPIFORMS; PRIMATE; SKULL; VERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOCAST; EUPRIMATES; PLESIADAPIFORMS; VERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; EUROPE; FOSSILS; PRIMATES; SKULL; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84896812330     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2792     Document Type: Article

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