Egyptian oligocene primates: A review
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The cranium of Parapithecus grangeri, an Egyptian Oligocene anthropoidean primate.
A nearly complete skull of Parapithecus grangeri from the early Oligocene of Egypt is described. The specimen is relatively undistorted and is undoubtedly the most complete higher primate skull yet found in the African Oligocene, which also makes it the most complete Oligocene primate cranium worldwide. Belonging in superfamily Parapithecoidea, a group regarded by some as the sister group to al...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Physical Anthropology
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0002-9483,1096-8644
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330380610