Newly discovered cercopithecid, equid and other mammalian fossils from the chorora formation, Ethiopia

Anthropological Science

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 19-39

  Suwa, Gen ^a   Beyene, Yonas ^b,f   Nakaya, Hideo ^c   Bernor, Raymond L ^d   Boisserie, Jean Renaud ^e,f   Bibi, Faysal ^g   Ambrose, Stanley H ^h   Sano, Katsuhiro ^a   Katoh, Shigehiro ⁱ   Asfaw, Berhane ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ARCC Awassa   (Ethiopia)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^f Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Service et de Recherche 3137   (Ethiopia)

^g LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

ⁱ MUSEUM OF NATURE AND HUMAN ACTIVITIES   (Japan)

^j Rift Valley Research Service Addis Ababa   (Ethiopia)

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Author keywords

Biochronology; Cercopithecidae; Eastern Africa; Late miocene; Mammalian evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930077229     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: 13488570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.150206     Document Type: Article

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