ANTH2700 Lab2

earliest example of a primate or a proto-primate
...epoch?...
- Purgatorius
- Paleocene Epoch
a modern primate...
...when did they appear?...
- euprimate
- Eocene epoch
the epochs: 7
- Paleocene 65-55 mya
- Eocene 55-34 mya
- Ogliocene 34-23 mya
- Miocene 23-5 mya
- Pliocene 5-1.8 mya
- Pleistocene 1.8 mya-10 kya
- Holocene 10 kya- present
Eocene primates (and what they are "like"...2
- Omomydae (tarsier-like)
Adapidae (lemur-like)
Ogliocene Primate (first branch)
Family & Genus
- Family: Parapithecidae (ancient Platyrrhini)
- Genus: Apidum
Ogliocene Primates (2nd branch)
1 species
2 genus
- Family Propliopithecidae (ancient Catarrhini)
- Species: Catopithecus browni
- Genus: Aegeptopithecus
- Genus: Propliopithecus
in what epoch was the split of the anthropoid line?
...time span?...
- Ogliocene
- 34-23 mya
in what epoch was the split of Cercopithecoidea and Hominoidea?
...time span?...
- Miocene
- 23-5 mya
Early Miocene Primate (gerera/2 species)
- Proconsul
- Procousul africanus
- Proconsul major
Mid-Miocene hominoids...4
- Dryopithecus
- (Ramamorph) Sivapithecus
- (Ramamorph) Gigantopithecus
- (Ramamorph) Oranopithecus
terminal Miocene bipeds...3
- Orroin Tugensis
- Sahelanthropus tchandensis
- Ardipithecus ramidus

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ANTH2700 Lab2

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ANTH2700 Lab2

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4/26/2011, 3:44:39 AM

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