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Preliminary description of the cranium of Proteopithecus sylviae, an Egyptian late Eocene anthropoidean primate

Recent discovery of crania, dentitions, and postcrania of a primitive anthropoidean primate, Proteopithecus sylviae, at the late Eocene L-4l quarry in the Fayum, Egypt, provides evidence of a new taxonomic family of early African higher primates, the Proteopithecidae. This family could be part of th...

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Main Author: Simons, Elwyn L.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The National Academy of Sciences of the USA 1997
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC25147/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9405723
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