Middle pleistocene hominin teeth from Longtan Cave, Hexian, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Xing, Song ^a   Martinón Torres, María ^b   De Castro, José María Bermúdez ^b   Zhang, Yingqi ^a   Fan, Xiaoxiao ^c   Zheng, Longting ^d   Huang, Wanbo ^e   Liu, Wu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^c Hexian Museum of Anhui Province   (China)

^d Anhui Museum   (China)

^e China Three Gorges Museum   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIAN; CHEEK; INCISOR; LOWER PLEISTOCENE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; MOLAR TOOTH; PREMOLAR TOOTH; TOOTH; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; CAVE; CHINA; FOSSIL; HOMINID; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; RADIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; CAVES; CHINA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOOTH; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84923078893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114265     Document Type: Article

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