Anthropology Quiz 3 Chapter 9

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Plesiadapiforms

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60mya not primate like

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What's so special about Carpolestes?

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it was a plesiadapiform that had some primate characteristics of grasping hands and feet and a nail on the big toe.

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Angiosperm Radiation Hypothesis

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primates evolved to fruit eating in the trees

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Visual predation hypothesis

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evolutionarily favored due to hunting insects

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arboreal hypothesis

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lived in trees

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Euprimates

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the first 'true' primates that had grasping hands and feet, nails, larger brains, forward facing eyes, postorbital bar, and generalized teeth; 34-56mya

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Adapids

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diurnal, larger, sexually dimorphic, vertical incisors, NO TOOTH COMB, strepsirhine-like (lemurs)

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Omomyids

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nocturnal, smaller, short snout, tarsier-like

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What was the Earliest Haplorhine?

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Archicebus (55mya), originated from asia, tarsier-like (small, arboreal, sharp cusped teeth) and anthropoid-like (small eyes, monkey like feet).

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Earliest Anthropoid

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Eosimias, china, anthropoid-like teeth (generalized and dental formula, large canines) short anthropoid like heel

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What kind of climate trend has been occurring in the Cenozoic?

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cooling trend for the last 65mya

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Oligocene

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epoch; 23-34mya;global cooling

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Earliest Anthropoids

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29-37mya; composed of parapithecids, oligopithecids, and propliopithecids

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parapithecids

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29-37mya; most primitive of the three, NW monkey dental formula (2-1-3-3), OW monkey body structure, postorbital closure, leaper.

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oligopithecids

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29-34mya; arboreal quadrupeds, OW monkey dental (2-1-2-3)

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propliopithecids

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32mya; largest size, OW monkey dentition (2-1-2-3), fruit diet, sexual dimorphism, arboreal, diurnal, small brain.

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Aegyptopithecus

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a propliopithecid from 30 mya; primate-like (forward eyes and grasping hands), anthropoid-like (short snout and post orbital closure), ape-like (2-1-2-3), and monkey-like (tail, quadruped)

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Saadanius

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28mya; bony auditory tube that is found in all OW and apes (not found in aegyptopithecus)

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Gigantopithecus

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found in asia from 8 to 0.5 mya; name based on size they stood over 10 feet; broad, flat molars and premolars; MIOCENE

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Sivapithecus

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MIOCENE ASIAN ape; lived from 12mya to 8mya; thick enamel to consume tough foods

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Oreopithecus Bambolii

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8mya in EUROPE; MIOCENE; extinct after 1mya; long forelimbs; shared some of the anatomical features associated with bipedalism.

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Dryopithecus

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MIOCENE; EUROPE; 13-10mya; similiar to chimps, large brains, slow life history; went extinct

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Morotopithecus Bishopi

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MIOCENE; AFRICA; 20mya; moved like an ape by arm hanging and vertical climbing; low cusped molars and premolars; y-5 pattern; sexually dimorphic canines

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Afropithecus Turkanensis

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MIOCENE; AFRICA; 16-18mya; broad incisors, y-5 molars with low cusps, large canine with diastema; simian shelf.

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Kenyapithcus Wickeri

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MIOCENE; AFRICA; later miocene; y-5 molars

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Which primates are in the Eocene?

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56-34mya; adapids, omomyids

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Which primates are in the Oligocene?

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34-23mya; Aegyptopithecus, saadanius, propliopithecids, parapithecids, and oligopithecids

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Which primates are in the Miocene?

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23-5.3mya; proconsulids, dryopithecus, sivapithecus, khoratpithecus, gigantopithecus, oreopithecus

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victoriapithecids

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miocene primates from Africa, possibly ancestral to OW monkeys