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SUBMITTER: Ingicco T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4051846 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ingicco Thomas T de Vos John J Huffman O Frank OF
PloS one 20140610 6
A fossil femur excavated by Eugène Dubois between 1891-1900 in the Lower/Middle Pleistocene bonebed of the Trinil site (Java, Indonesia) was recognised by us as that of a Hylobatidae. The specimen, Trinil 5703 of the Dubois Collection (Leiden, The Netherlands), has the same distinctive form of fossilization that is seen in many of the bonebed fossils from Trinil in the collection. Anatomical comparison of Trinil 5703 to a sample of carnivore and primate femora, supported by morphometric analyses ...[more]