ANT332H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ankarapithecus, Incisive Foramen, Simian
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Eligocene important in terms of monkey: we see ancestral anthropoid (common ancestor) of monkey, apes and humans. East africa: miocenes are related to hominoids (ancestors to great apes) o. Late miocene 12 - 5 mya o o. Pleiocene where we see the first hominids: huge climatic change in which a lot of woodland areas dry up, we see an extinction of a lot of hominoids. 20-15 mya 1st migration of african land mammals. 17-16 mya 1st evidence of hominoid primates. 15-12 mya major faunal immigration from africa. 12-10 mya primitive apes disappeared from europe. 10-7 mya - major faunal turnover in eurasia. You get a huge migration out of africa in middle miocene. By 10, they are starting to disappear in europe. And at the end of the miocene, there is a huge extinction. They have dentition that is starting to become more reminiscent of hominins o o. Family: proconsuloidea (e. africa & arabian peninsula: kamoyapithecus o.
