ANTHROP 3409 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Northeast Asia, Baboon, Swartkrans

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 3409
• Professor: Mc Graw William

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Introduction: beginning of miocene, rare throughout most of that epoch, africa, europe and asia. The earliest old world monkeys: nsunghwepithecus gunnelli, late oligocene of tanzania, large primate, only one tooth, many cannot be classified as either cercopithecoid or colobine primates from. Early and middle miocene deposits in northern and eastern africa = called. Fossil cercopithecids: late miocene, abundant deposits throughout africa and eurasia, potential hazards in assigning fossil monkeys to one family or another solely on basis of dental and cranial remains. East asia: m. nemestrina, more terrestrial, paradolichopithecus, similar baboon-like macaque from pliocene of europe and western. Pleistocene: t. brumpti, theropithecus o. darti, earliest pliocene, early member of lineage, large lowland terrestrial grazer, dependent on standing water and especially vulnerable to local extinction through climatic fluctuation, theropithecus brumpti, late pliocene of east africa. Anthro 3409: asian colobines, parapresbytis eohanuman, large (30 kg. , pliocene, northeast asia near lake baikal, arboreal, ?presbytis sivalensis, late miocene, siwalkis of northern india and pakistan.