Anthropoid origins

RF Kay, C Ross, BA Williams - Science, 1997 - science.org
Recent fossil discoveries have greatly increased our knowledge of the morphology and
diversity of early Anthropoidea, the suborder to which humans belong. Phylogenetic …

Evolution of anthropoid jaw loading and kinematic patterns

MJ Ravosa, CJ Vinyard, M Gagnon… - American Journal of …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Major transformations in the skull and masticatory system characterized the evolution of
crown anthropoids. To offer further insight into the phylogenetic and arguably adaptive …

Wasatchian through Duchesnean biochronology

P Robinson, GF Gunnell, SL Walsh… - Late Cretaceous and …, 2004 - degruyter.com
Ismael Ferrusquia-Villafranca, and Malcolm C. McKenna been recovered from rocks referred
to the upper part of the Cathedral Bluffs Tongue of the Wasatch Formation, and Uintan …

Earliest complete dentition of an anthropoid primate from the late middle Eocene of Shanxi Province, China

KC Beard, Y Tong, MR Dawson, J Wang, X Huang - Science, 1996 - science.org
The complete lower dentition of a new species of the basal anthropoid genus Eosimias
shows a combination of primitive and derived traits unknown in other living or fossil …

The eosimiid primates (Anthropoidea) of the Heti Formation, Yuanqu Basin, Shanxi and Henan Provinces, People's Republic of China

KC Beard, J Wang - Journal of Human Evolution, 2004 - Elsevier
We describe the eosimiid primate fossils collected during the course of four field seasons in
the late middle Eocene Heti Formation of central China. In addition to providing new …

New fossils, systematics, and biogeography of the oldest known crown primate Teilhardina from the earliest Eocene of Asia, Europe, and North America

PE Morse, SGB Chester, DM Boyer, T Smith… - Journal of Human …, 2019 - Elsevier
Omomyiform primates are among the most basal fossil haplorhines, with the oldest classified
in the genus Teilhardina and known contemporaneously from Asia, Europe, and North …

Skull of Catopithecus browni, an early tertiary catarrhine

EL Simons, DT Rasmussen - American Journal of Physical …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Fossil crania from quarry L‐41, Fayum, Egypt, representing Catopithecus browni, a primate
similar in size to callitrichids but with a catarrhine dental formula, provide the geologically …

[PDF][PDF] A NEW GENUS OF TARSIIDAE (MAMMALIA: PRIMATES) FROM

KC Beard - Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 1998 - researchgate.net
ABSTRACT A new genus and species of Tarsiidae is described from the late middle Eocene
Heti Formation, Yuanqu Basin, southern Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China …

[PDF][PDF] Primate olfaction: anatomy and evolution

TD Smith, JB Rossie - Olfaction and the Brain, 2006 - researchgate.net
More recently, Ca. hill (1970) has demonstr. ted that transition of a teffestrial'in\ecrivore-like,
dncenor ro an adoreal habirar doe.'rot favou r rhe expre'sion ot theprimaie traits mentioned …

A whole new world of ancestors: Eocene anthropoideans from Africa

EL Simons, T Rasmussen - Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
The last decade has witnessed enormous gains in our knowledge of early anthro‐poidean
primates, the oldest known relatives of monkeys, apes and humans. Recent fossil finds in …