Oligocene Primates
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Oligocene
diversification of platyrrhines and catarrhine
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Parapithecids are ancestral to
all haplorrhines (most similar to platyrrhines)
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Platyrrhine (dental formula, contact, ear, new world)
2.1.3.3
Zygomatic parietal contact
No bony ear tube
Rafting hypothesis
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Propliopithecids are ancestral to
catarrhines
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Catarrhine (dental formula, contact, ear)
2.1.2.3
Frontal sphenoid contact
Bony ear tube
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Example of Parapithecidae
Apidium
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Example of Propliopithecidae (diet, crest, activity pattern, locomotion)
Aegyptopithecus
Frugivorous, sexually dimorphic sagittal crest, diurnal, arboreal
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