ANTRHO105 Exam 3 - Section 4 Anthropoids, Dispersal & Early Apes - VOCAB ONLY

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Oligocene

Epoch about 34-23 million years ago, after the Eocene.

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Anthropoid

A monkey or ape, including humans.

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Fayum

Egyptian region preserving important early anthropoid fossils.

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Aegyptopithecus zeuxis

An early anthropoid from Egypt with a small brain, 2.1.2.3 teeth and arboreal quadrupedal adaptations.

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Rafting hypothesis

Dispersal across water on floating vegetation; applied here to New World monkey and lemur origins.

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Subfossil lemur

Relatively recent lemur remains that are not fully mineralized.

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Miocene apes

Apes living during the Miocene (about 23-5 Ma), a diverse radiation beginning in Africa.

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Proconsul

Early African ape combining ape-like cranial/dental traits with monkey-like quadrupedal anatomy.

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Sivapithecus

Middle Miocene ape, Asian fossil ape with facial similarities to orangutans.