ANTHROP 3409 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Postcrania, Gigantopithecus, Frontal Sinus
14 Mar 2017
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Middle-late oligocene primitive catarrhines from arabia and africa: saadanius hijazensis, medium-sized catarrhine, middle oligocene (29 28 mya, western saudia arabia, more advanced than aegyptopithecus but less derived than early. Early and middle miocene apes from africa: overview, kenya and uganda (25 15 mya, paraphyletic, superfamily = proconsuloids, more similar to extant catarrhines, range in size from 3. 5 kg. Anthro 3409: p. africanus, koru in western kenya, p. heseloni, rusinga island, p. nyanzae. 20 30 kg: rusinga island, p. major. Miocene epoch, from about 18 mya until 8 mya: hominidae, griphopithecus, oldest european fossil ape, thicker tooth enamel, ulna has moderately long olecranon, more primitive than the other large apes from eurasia, likely stem hominoid, dryopithecus. Anthro 3409: relatively small canines and short, broad anterior lower premolars in both sexes, molar enamel is extraordinarily thick, ate tubers and nuts, facial morphology links it with african ape and human clade.
