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PalAsiat. 1963. 27: 161-79, Lewis GE. Fossil apes are known from several late Miocene localities in Yunnan Province, southwestern China, principally from Shihuiba (Lufeng) and the Yuanmou Basin, and represent three species of Lufengpithecus. 1971. Nat. Miocene Primates A great abundance of hominoid fossil material has been found in the Old World from the Miocene (23-7 million years ago). Fully half of the mammalian families known today are present in the Miocene record. Press, 118.Spoor CF, Sondaar PY, Hussain ST. 1992. J. Hum. DR Swindler, J Erwin, 1:361-411. Click EDIT to add/edit tags. An intriguing lower jaw of Otavipithecus from Berg Aukas in Namibia provisionally dated at 13 ma (36), an upper jaw from the Samburu Hills in central Kenya dated to approximately 8 ma (57), and a handful of isolated specimens from Lothagam, Kanapoi, and the Baringo Basin (51) make up most of what is known about African apes between 14 ma and the discovery of a possible early hominid at Aramis, Ethiopia, at 4.4 ma (135). The shape of the incisive canal and subnasal alveolar process are often cited in support of a close family tree relationship between certain middle-late Miocene apes and the great ape and human clade (20, 57, 131-133). A hominoid hamate and first metacarpal from the Late Miocene Nagri Formation of Pakistan. Anew Mio- cene gibbon-like genus, Dendropithecus (Hominoidea, Primates) with distinctive postcranial adaptations: Its significance to origin of Hylobatidae. Although normally showing a strong deltopectoral crest and anterior curvature of the proximal humerus shaft in adults, juvenile Old World monkeys manifest a straight shaft and faintly marked deltopectoral crest. Recent claims that Dryopithecus is closely allied to the African ape clade (18-21) are based on a misunderstanding of frontal morphology and the distribution of subnasal con- figurations among extant and extinct hominoids. The abbreviated premaxilla, relatively monomorphic upper incisors, tall and slender canines, thin enamel, and small simian shelf of gibbons may be recently derived features acquired in response to a reduction in body size and an increase in percentages of ripe fruit and young leaves in their annual diet. Maxillofacial morpho16gy of Miocene hominoids from Africa and Indo-Pakistan. The Miocene Hominoidea of East Africa. 38:43744, Hurzeler j. The first unambiguous occurrence of a hanging shoulder joint with a me- dially rotated humeral head similar to that of modern apes was discovered in. Phylogenetic, paleode- mographic, and taphonomic implications of Mctoriaaithecus deciduous teeth from Maboko, ~enya. On the mandible of, 116.Simons EL, Pilbeam DR. 1972. The most distinctive feature of the Kenyapithecus distal humerus is the strong posterior inclination of the medial epicondyle. Prelin1inary age estimates have been made on the basis of mammalian fossils which 88: 295-312, 101.Pilbeam DR, Rose MD, Badgley C, Lip- schutz B. Moya Sola & Kohler (94) suggest that the Dryopithecus cheek bone (zygo- matic) shares two derived conditions with Pongo that are functionally related to the presence of well-developed cheek pads: (a) robust proportions with a rugose top surface and (b) the occurrence of three prominent holes (zygomax- illary foramina) located high on the frontal process at about one third the height of the eye socket. Fossil homi- noid vertebra from the Miocene of Uganda. Although an analysis of the sacrum of Proconsul has suggested the absence of a tail (129), the position of the ischial spine raises the possibility that Proconsul actually differed from modern homi- noids in retaining a tail (88). Their diets varied from young leaves to soft fruit (23, 24, 61), but their limb bone adaptations indicate that all forms for which limbs are presently known were predominantly quadrupedal and arboreal (75,76,78, 95, 104, 107). Any Annual Review chapter, as well as any article cited in an Annual Review chapter, may be purchased from the Annual Reviews Preprints and Reprints service. A proximal ulna of Kenyapithecus exhibits a longer and more posteriorly reflected olecranon process than is characteristic of modern hominoids (88). J. Phys. 13:659-77, McCrossin ML, Benefit BR. The classification of Oreopithecus. On these grounds, Pilbeam & Simons (103) emphasized its similarity to Pan paniscus. a. Stratigraphy b. Dendrochronology ... What is meant by the cultivation continuum? However, upper jaws of Kenyapithecus from Baragoi (57) and Dryopithecus from Rudabanya (132) resemble Rangwapithecus and some individuals of Hylobates and Gorilla in that the incisive opening is of moder- ately large caliber and the front edge of the palatal process of the maxilla is not overridden by the back edge of the subnasal alveolar process. However, this morphology is probably primi- tive for Old World higher primates because it is observed in Old World monkeys as well as in Proconsul (88). 19:39711.22, Andrews P. 1970. Hist. (Suppl. The bulk of this material consists of isolated teeth (Table 2), although several more complete craniodental and postcranial elements were also recovered. 5:309-18, Ho~wood AT. Press, 108.Ruff CB, Walker A, Teaford ME 1989. A taxonomic revision of the small catarrhine primates from the Early Miocene of East Africa. These features include reduction of molar cingula, thicker molar enamel, a less sectorial dp3 (third deciduous premolar), a lower jaw symphysis with a strong inferior transverse torus, a posteriorly directed genial pit, a weak superior transverse torus, and a robust body of the lower jaw. Mountain building took place in western North America, Europe, and East Asia. 16:369-87. 75: 5348, Alpagut B, Andrews P, Martin L. 1990. Further examination of the distribution of zygomatic robusticity and development of zygomaxillary foramina is required before such features are taken to be specifically characteristic of the Pongo clade. Much progress has recently been made, but further hominoid specimens, coupled with environmental information from well‐calibrated sequences, is necessary to elucidate the nature and causes of cladistic branching within the superfamily. IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EMERGENCE OF TRUE HOMINIDS. Humerus of Dryopithecus from Saint Gaudens, France. arboreality vs terrestriality), mode of locomotion, body size, bioenergetics, and diet of the Miocene apes. Folia Prima- tol. A significant amount of fossil remains have been found for Oreopithecus bambolii, a Miocene hominoid from the Tuscany region. Sci. Evol. It has been claimed that Dryopithecus possesses an incipient supraorbital torus that could have been a precursor to the brow ridges in African apes (20). J. Phys. A major goal of paleoanthropology is to understand the timing and nature of the emergence of humans (members of the Family Hominidae, commonly referred to as hominids) from a generalized stock that was ancestral to both apes and humans (members of the Superfamily Hominoidea, or hominoids). The description of this taxon is based on a hominoid partial face with mandible (IPS43000) discovered at locality Abocador de Can Mata (ACM)/C3-Aj, in the area of Els Hostalets de Pierola (Vallès-Penedès Basin, Catalonia, Spain). 1995. True or false? 1995. 1979. 27: 385-94, Begun DR, Moya-Sola S, Kohler M. 1990. J. Phys. 33a, pp. The large-bodied hominoid from Uganda dates to at least 20.6 million years ago and thus represents the oldest known hominoid sharing these derived … In Paleoanthropology, Morphology, and Pa- leoecology, ed. 1993. Z. Morph. Stratigraphy of the Lothidok Range, northern Kenya, and WAr ages of its Mio- cene primates. Afr Stud. In contrast to lower incisors of Proconsul, Dryopithecus, Sivapithecus, and Ouranopithecus, which are verti- cally implanted, those of Kenyapithecus lean forward strongly. East and Southern Africa, SW and Southern Asia and southern China, Western and southern Europe The terms Sivapithecus, Proconsul and Dryopithecus, applied to different groups of Miocene hominoids, refer to a distinction made at what taxonomic level? Acta Geol. Java considers the variables number and NuMbEr to be identical. It was a rolling landscape that was dotted by volcanic hills. Homo of the Family Hominidae) than they are to the orangutan (111). Dryopithecines from the Miocene of Saudi Arabia. Natr~cad: Sci. 33a. 1991. Some observations on the Miocene hominoids from Spain. 124.Tuttle RH. 13: 503-16 106.Rose MD. 1986. Early Miocene survivors include leaf-eating forms such as the small-bodied ape Simiolus and the oreopithecid Nyanzapithecus, but overall the higher primate community is dominated by hard fruit-eating species such as the large-bodied hominoid Kenyapithecus and the Old World monkey Victoriapithecus (23, 25-27,29, 30, 89, 96). All of the hominoid remains have been … The first approach draws on information from the comparative anatomy, behavior, and genetic composition of living apes and humans (46, 65,70, 100, 110). Nature 324: 14346, Leakey RE, Leakey MG. 1988. Chicago: Aldine, 117.Simons EL, Pilbeam DR. 1978. Although various genera have been suggested as being closer to the African ape and human clade than others, most of these claims are not validated by examination of the evidence. Proc. In addition to studies concentrating on family tree relationships, there have been several reconstructions of the environments in which Miocene ape fossils are found (10, 33, 60, 113, 134). RS Corruccini, RL Ciochon, pp. The ischial spine, which is the origin site of the tail abductor and depressor in monkeys and the origin site of muscles that support the pelvic viscera in tail-less apes (2), is well preserved in Proconsul. In modern hominoids and arboreal monkeys, the entepicondyle is large and medially directed, re- flecting the premium placed on digital grasping (45). A partial skeleton of Proconsul nyanzae from Mfangano Island, Kenya.Am . and 5.5 Myr have yielded hominoid fossils belonging to nine species. In addition, the minimal development of the hamulus of the Sivapithecus hamate (another wrist bone) is completely unlike the large, hook-like hamulus of modern hominoids, including gibbons (118). They share a moder- ately wedge-shaped trochlea and a trochlear surface that exhibits a high lateral keel and low medial keel as in quadrupedal Old World monkeys. Int. 27:373-83, Conrov GC. Hominoid evolution and hominid origins. 1978. Micropithecus clarki, a small ape from the Miocene, Fleagle JG, Simons EL. Morphology of Afropithecus turkanensis from Kenya. Hist.) J.Phys. Anthropol. New York: Aca- demic. In the late Early Miocene, some relatively primitive type of hominoids left Africa, and entered into Europe through Anatolia with the oldest hominoid record in Europe being 16.5Ma. However, the fragments of frontal bone of Dryopithecus from Rudabanya and the new Dryopithecus skull material from Can Llobateres cannot be said to have supraorbital tori (39) because they have no continuous bar of bone from one side of the forehead to the other and there is no extension of the ethmoidal sinus into the frontal as in species that have true supraorbital tori (91, 94, 131). New Miocene hominoid specimens from Can Llobateres (Valles Penedes, Spain) and their geological and paleoecological context. 1:l-117, Le Gros Clark WE, Thomas DP. 1987. 1992. 3:l-27, Lewis GE. In what part of the world have Miocene hominoid fossils been found? 1986. Such an articulation is most effective for moving the arm forward and backward in quadrupedal primates. 17:l-18, 138.Xu X, Delson E. 1989. Ill. Univ. Anthropol. Afi: (BI: Mus. Anthropol. Boschetto HB, Brown FH, McDougall I. For over a century, a Neogene fossil mammal fauna has been known in the Irrawaddy Formation in central Myanmar. hiag. J.Phys. Nature 244:313-14, 126.Walker A, Pickford M. 1983. The distal humerus of Kenyapithecus from Fort Ternan (KNM-IT 2751) resembles living hominoids in having a deep olecranon fossa and a broad trochlea with a well-developed median gutter and lateral trochlear keel (14, 42). Java considers the variables number and NuMbEr to be identical. A hominoid proximal humerus from the early Miocene of Rusinga Island, Kenya. 1984. The hominoid- like patella of Kenyapithecus probably characterized the ancestor of living Old World higher primates, whereas the apparently long (proximodistally), narrow (mediolaterally), and thick (anteroposteriorly) patellar proportions of extant Old World monkeys are derived (88, 92). 59:175-93, Galdikas BMF, Teleki G. 1981. J. Sci. 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In Pongo, Pan, and most individuals of Gorilla, in contrast, the incisive opening is constricted, forming a true incisive canal, and the subnasal alveolar process "overrides the anterior edge of the hard palate, producing an overlapping relationship between these two elements" (133). 1989. Contrary to most previous interpreta- tions, new fossil evidence indicates that well-known middle-late Miocene large-bodied apes such as Kenyapithecus, Sivapithecus, and Dryopithecus branched off before the ancestor that gave rise to all living hominoids; there- fore, these extinct genera are not members of the great ape and human group- ing. 5:55-61, Abel 0. Without an understanding of these basic adaptive parameters, broad paleoenvi- ronmental reconstructions provide virtually no information concerning the ecological interactions of Miocene apes within their physical and biotic envi- ronments. Catalogo comentado de 10s pongidos fossiles de Espaiia. Rather than being large and spherical as in modern apes, the Kenyapithecus humeral head is quite flat proximally and is low as in semiterrestrial Old World monkeys. 33a, pp. 62-103. Na, 136.Wu RK. 1961. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Langdon JH. Hominoid evolution is an important research subject. Press. McCrossin ML. In contrast, the early Miocene apes, including Proconsul, have massive superior transverse tori, downward-directed genial pits, and no simian shelves. For example, Miocene apes of very uncertain relationship to modern taxa (e.g. Throughout the early Miocene period (23-16 ma) apes were both abundant and diverse in eastern Africa but are very poorly known outside this region. J. Phvs. An intermediate pattern, with an incisive aperture that is not as large as that of Old World monkeys nor as small as that of orangutans and chimpanzees, combined with minimal or no overlap of the front edge of the palatal process of the maxilla and the back edge of the subnasal alveolar process, is seen in the early Miocene ape Rang- wapithecus (132) and some individuals of Hylobates (91) and Gorilla (133). In Comparative Primate Biology: Systematics, Evolution and Anatomy, ed. Ramapithecus: a review of its hominid status. Eurasian Miocene hominoids seem to have undergone a marked decline at 7 ma. The astragali of Proconsul (71), Afropithecus (76), Kenyapithecus (88), Dryopithecus (93), and Sivapithecus (107) are quite comparable. Re- duction of the molar cingulum is considered to be a derived trait because all early Miocene apes, including Proconsul and Afropithecus, possess well- marked cingula. Most notably, Ramapithecus (now generally recognized as including representatives of Kenyapithecus from eastern Africa, Griphopithecus from Asia Minor, and Sivapithecus from southern Asia) was widely touted as a human ancestor (12, 37, 63, 80, 81, 97, 114, 115, 117). Hominoid paleoprimatology. By dividing the trochlea from the capitulum, the lateral trochlear ridge frees the radius for motions independent from the ulna in a variety of elbow postures (95). Miocene ~rimates froh British East Africa. Edinburgh 46:283-311, De Bonis L, Bouvrain G, Geraads D, Koufos G. 1990. J. Phys. 123.Tekkaya I. These mammals are proboscideans, rhinocerotids, tayasuids, suids, tragulids and bovids ( Pickford et al., 2004 , Nakaya et al., 2001 , Nakaya et al., 2002a , Nakaya et al., 2002b , Nakaya et al., 2002c , Nakaya et al., 2003 ). associated mammal fauna from Irrawaddy Formation … Anew look at Kenyapithecus based on recent discoveries in west- ern Kenya. Skulls of the basal Old World higher primate Aegyptopi- thecus from the Oligocene of Egypt and the middle Miocene Old World monkey Victoriapithecus also have marked supraorbital costae and frontal trigons, indicating that such a configuration was primitive for Old World higher primates in general (29, 30). 147-53. Based on size, these fossils can be divided into two major subgroupings: small-bodied and large-bodied hominoids. 1937. The Evolution of Human Behavior: Primate Models. Until more complete, well-preserved, and diagnostic material is found, the Wudu lower jaw is best regarded as representing an indeterminate Old World higher primate. The evolution of baboons. Am. 1976.Ramapithecus in Kenya and Turkey. Fossil soils, grasses, and carbon isotopes from Fort Ternan, Kenya: Grass- land or woodland? Well studied continental exposures occur in the North American Great Plains and in Argentina . However, this appearance is strongly influenced by postmortem crushing damage proximally, especially in the antero-medial portion of the deltopectoral crest, and the immature age of the individual (88, 92). 4:4448, Cunningham DJ. Kenyapithecus shares a broad humeral trochlea and prominent lateral trochlear keel with Proconsul, Sivapithecus, Dryopithecus, and Oreopithecus in addition to modern hominoids (93, 95, 102, 120). the molecular clock), which indicated that the last common ancestor of all living hominoids originated between 15 and 12 million years ago (ma), whereas humans diverged from gorillas and chimpanzees about 5 ma (1 10, 111). Anthropol. Vert. M. 1981. 50:136-49, 113.Shipman P, Walker A, Van Couvering JAH, Hooker PJ. The proximal and intermediate phalanges of most Miocene hominoids, including Proconsul, are long and curved, indicating use of arboreal substrates (95). The greater tubercle (a bony process for insertion of the rotator cuff muscles) is large, anterolaterally placed, and extends above the level reached by the articular surface of the humeral head. The Hague: Mouton, Crusafont M, Hurzeler J. All living hominoids, including gibbons, great apes, and humans, share a shoulder joint adapted for hanging, characterized by a large, rounded, and medially (toward the midline of the body) facing proximal humerus that ar- ticulates with a supero-laterally directed glenoid fossa on the scapula (72). Resembling a human. Cur,: Anthropol. The hunt for Proconsul. Am. Afi (BE Mus. Hominoid postcranial specimens from the middle Miocene Chinji Formation, Pakistan. 1972. Die Primatenfunde aus der miozanen Spaltenfiillung von Neudorf an der March (Devinska Nova Ves), Tsche- choslowakei. 1991. In Approaches to Primate Paleobiol- ogy, ed. Plenty of hominoid fossils like Proconsul have been found from the early half of the Miocene in East Africa for decades. 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In contrast, semiterre- stria1 and terrestrial Old World monkeys have abbreviated and postero- medially oriented medial epicondyles because of the reduction in the mass of the wrist and finger flexors (31, 59). Anthrouol. 16:187-92, Lovejoy CO. 1981. Aiello L,Dean C. 1990.An Introduction to Human Evolutionary Anatomy. We here report the occurrence of a Late Miocene hominoid in Niger, associated with a restricted fauna which indicates an age of c. 11–8 Myr. 1992. In Classification and Human Evolution, ed. Evol. 1992. Vert. The proximal ends of the Kenyapithecus femur and the Dryopithecus femur from Eppelsheim are characterized by small femoral heads, relatively long femoral necks, and high neck-shaft angles (77). Because of their past scarcity, limb bone remains of middle-to-late Miocene large-bodied apes traditionally played a relatively minor role in discussions of their family tree relationships and adaptations (18). Locomotor behavfor in'liviniand fossil pongids. Nature 348:237-39, 103.Pilbeam DR, Simons EL. Acta Anthropol. It is during the late … 1986. 1986. New postcra- nial fossils of Proconsul africanus andProconsul nyanzae. Oreopithecus, extinct genus of primates found as fossils in Late Miocene deposits in East Africa and Early Pliocene deposits in southern Europe (11.6 to 3.6 million years ago). Such molarization is most conspicuous in Paranthropus, and to a lesser extent in A. afarensis, where substantial development of the talonid cusps has occurred. PhD thesis. RH Tuttle, pp. Nut. Begun DR. 1987. Unfortunately, the lack of accurately located fossiliferous sites and the absence of hominoid fossils have impeded paleontological studies. Largely owing to the scarcity of fossil hominoid remains from African deposits dating between 11 and 5 ma, we currently lack intermediate transitional forms between the semit- errestrial quadrupedalism of Kenyapithecus and the fully terrestrial bipedalism of Australopithecus. Primatol. 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As in semiter- restrial cercopithecoids such as Macaca, the medial portion of the entocunei- form facet of the hallucial metatarsal is flat and the peroneal tubercle is large, indicating that the big toe was habitually adducted (88). 33a, pp. Small-bodied varieties comprise gibbon and siamang Large-bodied hominoids are Pongo (orangutan), Gorilla, Pan (chimpanzees and bonobos) and … Moreover, fossil-based evolutionary scenarios often depended more on speculation than actual documentation of the anatomy, diet, locomo- tion, and competitive interactions of Miocene apes. Vert. 1964. distribution of miocene hominoid fossils in space and time During initial stages of their evolution, apes seem to have been restricted to the continent of Africa. Andrews P, Tekkaya I. Anthro- pol. Otavipithecus namibiensis, first Miocene hominoid from southern Africa. J. Phys. The lower jaw of Kenyapithecus is distinguished from that of all other apes by its extremely long and forward-inclined sym- physis. 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