The Dietary Competitive Environment of the Origination and Early Diversification of Euprimates in North America

abstract: The earliest Eocene marked the appearance of the first North American euprimates (adapids, omomyids). Despite the fact that leading hypotheses assert that traits involved in food acquisition underlie euprimate origination and early diversification, the precise role that dietary competition...

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Other Authors: Stroik, Laura Kathryn (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.25151