A new species of Nyanzachoerus (Cetartiodactyla: Suidae) from the late Miocene Toros-Ménalla, Chad, Central Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Boisserie, Jean Renaud ^a   Souron, Antoine ^a,b   Mackaye, Hassane Taïsso ^c   Likius, Andossa ^c   Vignaud, Patrick ^a   Brunet, Michel ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE N'DJAMENA   (Chad)

^d Collège de France ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRAL AFRICA; CETARTIODACTYLA; EXTANT SPECIES; FEMALE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NYANZACHOERUS; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT; TOOTH; UPPER MIOCENE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHAD; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; HISTORY; MANDIBLE; MOLAR TOOTH; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; PREMOLAR TOOTH;

ANIMALS; BICUSPID; CHAD; FEMALE; FOSSILS; GENETIC SPECIATION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; MALE; MANDIBLE; MOLAR; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SWINE;

EID: 84929941222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103221     Document Type: Article

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