Evolutionary History of the PrimatesAcademic Press, 22 oct 2013 - 580 páginas Evolutionary History of the Primates presents a documentation and analysis of the fossil record and evolutionary history of the primates to facilitate the understanding of the genealogy, adaptations, dispersal, and taxonomy of the order. The book consists of 13 chapters; each chapter is devoted to a specific genera or higher taxa of primates. The chapters contain available information on the morphology, relationships, and adaptations of primate groups. The book clarifies discussed points or documents interpretations, and it indicates the type of fossil material available for each taxon. The text will be valuable to many researchers and students who need a source of data and interpretations about fossil primates. |
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CHAPTER 4 SUPERFAMILY PLESIADAPOIDEA | 72 |
CHAPTER 5 SUBORDER STREPSIRHINI | 99 |
CHAPTER 6 Infraorder Adapiformes new | 105 |
CHAPTER 7 Infraorder Lemuriformes Gregory 1915b | 149 |
CHAPTER 10 SUBORDER HAPLORHINI | 189 |
CHAPTER 11 Infraorder Tarsiiformes | 199 |
CHAPTER 11 Family Omomyidae incertae sedis | 269 |
CHAPTER 12 Infraorder Platyrrhini | 275 |
CHAPTER 13 Infraorder Catarrhini | 303 |
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GLOSSARY | 557 |
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adapids adaptations Africa ancestral Apidium Australopithecus bones buccal view canine catarrhines Cave cercopithecids cheek teeth cingulum colobines corpus cranial crest cusps Delson dental formula dentition derived characters DISCUSSION distal distinct DISTRIBUTION Early DISTRIBUTION Late dorsal view Dryopithecus early Eocene ectotympanic elongated enlarged Eocene Figure fossa fossil genera genus Gingerich Gros Clark hominids Homo humerus Hylobates hypocone hypoconulid incisors INCLUDED TAXA KNOWN SPECIES Late Miocene Leakey lemuriforms Leptadapis lingual view Localities lower molars Macaca male mandible mandibular maxilla medial view metaconid Middle Eocene Miocene modern molars morphology morphotype Notharctus occlusal view omomyids Omomys Paleocene Papio paraconid Parapapio Pelycodus Pilbeam platyrrhines Pleistocene plesiadapiforms Plesiadapis Pliocene Pliopithecus postcranial premolars primates probably Propliopithecus Protoadapis protocone Ramapithecus relatively right lateral view robust Scales represent similar Simons Sivapithecus skull specimens strepsirhines subfamily suggested Szalay talonid tarsiiforms Tarsius taxon Tetonius Theropithecus tion tooth trigonid type species upper molars western North America