几何形态学和古蛋白质学阐明了庞戈河古生物多样性

Jülide Kubat1,2, Ryan Paterson3, Ioannis Patramanis3

  • 1CNRS, BABEL, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France.

PloS one
|December 15, 2023
PubMed
概括

使用几何形态学和古蛋白质学研究化石猩猩牙,揭示了对已灭绝物种的洞察力. 虽然现代牙与化石牙不同,但精确的物种识别仍然具有挑战性,突出了正在进行的分类学辩论.

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