Research Catalog

Title

Anthropoid origins / edited by John G. Fleagle and Richard F. Kay.

Publication

New York : Plenum Press, c1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fleagle, John G.
• Kay, Richard F.

Description

xvi, 708 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in primatology

Uniform Title

Advances in primatology (Plenum Press)

Subjects

• Primates > Evolution > Congresses
• Primates, Fossil > Congresses
• Fossil primates

Note

• Revised papers from a conference held at Duke University, May 1992.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Early radiation of euprimates and the initial diversification of omomyidae / Kenneth D. Rose, Marc Godinot, Thomas M. Bown -- Recently recovered specimens of North American eocene omomyids and adapids and their bearing on debates about anthropoid origins / Herbert H. Covert, Blythe A. Williams -- Cranial anatomy of shoshonius and the antiquity of anthropoidea / K. Christopher Beard, R.D.E. MacPhee -- Messel primates and anthropoid origins / Jens Lorenz Franzen -- Relative ages of eocene primate-bearing deposits of Asia / Patricia A. Holroyd, Russell L. Ciochon.
• Asian origin of anthropoidea revisited / Russell L. Ciochon, Patricia A. Holroyd -- Rencunius zhoui, new primate from the Late Middle Eocene of Henan, China and a comparison with some early anthropoidea / Philip D. Gingerich, Patricia A. Holroyd, Russell L. Ciochon -- Eocene origin of anthropoid primates: adaptations, evolution and diversity / Elwyn L. Simons ... [et al.] -- Eocene anthropoid postcrania from the Fayum, Egypt / Daniel L. Gebo ... [et al.] -- Early North African primates and their significance for the origin of simiformes / Marc Godinot.
• Paleogeography, paleobiogeography and anthropoid origins / Patricia A. Holroyd, Mary C. Maas -- Different meanings of a tarsoid-anthropoid clade and a new model of anthropoid origin / D. Tab Rasmussen -- Dental evidence for anthropoid origins / Richard F. Kay, Blythe A. Williams -- Function and fusion of the mandibular symphysis in primates: stiffness or strength / Matthew J. Ravosa, William L. Hylander -- Craniofacial evidence for anthropoid and tarsier relationships / Callum Ross -- Anatomy, antinomies and the problem of anthropoid origins / Matt Cartmill.
• Postcranial anatomy and the origin of the anthropoidea / Marian Dagosto, Daniel L. Gebo -- Primitive platyrrhines? Perspectives on anthropoid origins from platyrrhine, parapithecid and preanthropoid posteronia / Susan M. Ford -- Anthropoid origins: past, present and future / John G. Fleagle, Richard F. Kay.

Call Number

JFF 97-2096

ISBN

0306447916

LCCN

94043006 //r95

OCLC

31607910

Title

Anthropoid origins / edited by John G. Fleagle and Richard F. Kay.

Imprint

New York : Plenum Press, c1994.

Series

Advances in primatology

Advances in primatology (Plenum Press)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Indexed Term

Fossil primates

Added Author

Fleagle, John G.

Kay, Richard F.

Research Call Number

JFF 97-2096