Gradual phyletic evolution at the generic level in early Eocene omomyid primates

Authors

Kenneth D. Rose, Johns Hopkins UniversityFollow
Thomas M. Bown, US Geological Survey

Date of this Version

1984

Comments

Published in NATURE VOL. 309 17 MAY 1984.

Abstract

Analysis of dental morphology in over 600 stratigraphically controlled specimens of tarsier-like primates from early Eocene strata in Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, provides important new data for understanding the tempo and mode of evolution in primates.