ANTH 2700 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Proconsul Africanus, Dentition, Afropithecus
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Miocene hominoid evolution [lab manual and workbook for physical. Hominin: homo sapiens and all of our ancestors after the split with species of the genesis pan. Old world monkeys and apes appeared in the early miocene. Rare relative to primitive hominoids, but numbers increased through the miocene. By late miocene, cercopithecoids were relatively much more common than the hominoids, the situation that exists today. Victoriapithecids (now extinct) - victoriapithecus (likely replaced by monkeys) Apes of early miocene had 2:1:2:3 dental formula. Virtually all primitive apes of early miocene found in east africa and namibia. Afropithecus - kenya and saudi arabia - first apelike ancestor to leave africa. Grophothecus - earliest ape to arrive in the fossil record in europe. Sivapithecus, kenyapithecus, ouranpithecus (found in greece, possible common ancestor to apes and humans), gigantopithecus (larges primate ever lived): Wide molars, low cusps, large relative to anterior teeth.
