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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<p>Example of Parapithecidae</p>

Example of Parapithecidae

Apidium

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<p>Example of Propliopithecidae (diet, crest, activity pattern, locomotion)</p>

Example of Propliopithecidae (diet, crest, activity pattern, locomotion)

Aegyptopithecus

  • Frugivorous, sexually dimorphic sagittal crest, diurnal, arboreal