ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: List Of Fossil Primates, Paleocene, Oligocene
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Early primates, early hominins and the first tools. Earliest primates date to the paleocene 65 mya, Plesiodapiforms paleocene (65 mya: europe/north america, squirrel like animal, both non-primate and primate traits. A vast number of fossil primates have been discovered and now total more than 200 recognized species. Unlike the available paleocene forms, those from the eocene display more clearly derived primate features. Omomyids: adapids, tarsier-like, similar to lemurs and lorises, lemur-like. Primates from oligocene 34-24 mya: emergence of anthropoids, ancestors to new world/old world monkeys, aegyptopithecus, found to be located at fayum egypt. Miocene 24-5. 2 mya: emergence of proto apes and apes. The group that includes all those species more closely related to homo sapiens than to any other living great ape. Hominin homonyms: hominoid apes and humans including gibbons (superfamily, hominid - all the extinct and extant great apes including humans, chimps, gorillas, orangutans, and bonobos (family, hominine (subfamily) of hominids. Includes humans, chimps, gorillas, bonobos but not orangutans.
