Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
15 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
WHO ARE WE: We are the oldest definitive primates, we are from the Eocene Epoch, about 55 million years ago
|
We are Adapids and Omomyids
|
|
|
WHO AM I: I am the type of animal that primates probably evolved from, I look like modern day shrews and moles.
|
Insectivore mammals
|
|
|
Omomyids and Adapids were from what epoch?
|
The Eocene Epoch
|
|
|
Where in the world did the first anthropoids emerge?
|
Fayum, southwest of Cairo
|
|
|
WHO ARE WE: We are the 2 kinds of anthropoids in the Oligocene Epoch
|
We are Parapithecus and Propliopithecus
|
|
|
When did Parapithecus and Propliopithecus emerge? What Epoch?
|
About 35-31 million years ago, Oligocene Epoch
|
|
|
WHO AM I: kitten-sized, small brained, monkey-like, noctural, fruit-eating, arboreal quadreped of the Oligocene Epoch
|
Parapithecus
|
|
|
WHO AM I: 13-pound, fruit-eating, diurnal (daytime living), arboreal quadreped, ape-like of the Oligocene Epoch
|
Propliopithecus
|
|
|
What is a proto-ape?
|
It's an anthropoid with some ape-like characteristics
|
|
|
WHO AM I: I lived in the early Miocene Epoch about 20 million years ago, I was arboreal, I came from Kenya/Uganda.
|
Proconsul
|
|
|
WHO AM I: I lived 13 million years ago in the Middle Miocene Epoch, I had a face/teeth resembling more modern hominids, and I was the first definitive ape-like creature
|
Pierolpithecus
|
|
|
WHO AM I: I lived in Europe, 8 million years ago, I had an ape-like body and a monkey-like head.
|
Oreopithecus
|
|
|
WHO AM I: I lived in the Late Miocene Epoch, about 13-8 million years ago. I lived on the ground and people now think I was ancestral to orangutans
|
I am Sivapithecus
|
|
|
WHO AM I: I was HUGE! Over 10 feet tall and over 600 pounds! I lived in Southeast Asia in the Late Miocene Epoch
|
I am Gigantopithecus
|
|
|
WHO AM I: I am from the Late Miocene Epoch, about 15-10 million years ago. I am from Eurasia, I was chimp-sized, arboreal and able to SWING in trees!
|
I am Dryopithecids/Dryopithecus
|
