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Vincent Lazzari
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Open AccessDental macrowear reveals ecological diversity of Gorilla spp.
Size and shape variation of molar crowns in primates plays an important role in understanding how species adapted to their environment. Gorillas are commonly considered to be folivorous primates because they p...
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Open AccessA new primate from the late Eocene of Vietnam illuminates unexpected strepsirrhine diversity and evolution in Southeast Asia
Sivaladapidae is a poorly known Asian strepsirrhine family originally discovered in Miocene sediments of the Indian subcontinent. Subsequent research has considerably increased the diversity, temporal range, a...
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Open AccessNew Eocene primate from Myanmar shares dental characters with African Eocene crown anthropoids
Recent discoveries of older and phylogenetically more primitive basal anthropoids in China and Myanmar, the eosimiiforms, support the hypothesis that Asia was the place of origins of anthropoids, rather than A...
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Erratum to: First record of a diacodexeid artiodactyl in the middle Eocene Pondaung Formation (Myanmar)
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First record of a diacodexeid artiodactyl in the middle Eocene Pondaung Formation (Myanmar)
A fragmentary maxilla referred to a new diacodexeid artiodactyl, Magwetherium burmense, n. gen. and sp., is described from Sabapondaung locality in the middle Eocene Pondaung Formation in Myanmar. Comparisons wit...
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Occlusal Pattern in Paulchoffatiid Multituberculates and the Evolution of Cusp Morphology in Mammaliamorphs with Rodent-like Dentitions
Multituberculates developed a very complex masticatory apparatus during their long evolutionary history from the Jurassic to the Paleogene. Besides their rodent-like elongated incisors and diastemata, Cenozoic...
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Gaudeamus lavocati sp. nov. (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the early Oligocene of Zallah, Libya: first African caviomorph?
A new African species of hystricognathous rodent, Gaudeamus lavocati sp. nov., is described herein from the early Oligocene deposits of Zallah locality (Sirt basin, Central Libya). The dental morphology of this s...
