Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of Messel in Germany: Morphology and Paleobiology

BACKGROUND: The best European locality for complete Eocene mammal skeletons is Grube Messel, near Darmstadt, Germany. Although the site was surrounded by a para-tropical rain forest in the Eocene, primates are remarkably rare there, and only eight fragmentary specimens were known until now. Messel h...

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Autores principales: Franzen, Jens L., Gingerich, Philip D., Habersetzer, Jörg, Hurum, Jørn H., von Koenigswald, Wighart, Smith, B. Holly
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2683573/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19492084
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005723

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2683573/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19492084
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005723

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