Cranial remains of an Eocene tarsier

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	Cranial remains of an Eocene tarsier
	Rossie, JB ; Ni, XJ; Beard, KC ; Rossie, JB (reprint author), SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Anthropol, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA.
	2006-03-21
发表期刊	PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ISSN	0027-8424
卷号	103 期号:12 页码:4381-4385
文章类型	Article
摘要	The phylogenetic position of tarsiers relative to anthropoids and Paleogene omomyids remains a subject of lively debate that lies at the center of research into anthropoid origins. Omomyids have long been regarded as the nearest relatives of tarsiers, but a sister group relationship between anthropoids and tarsiers has also been proposed. These conflicting phylogenetic reconstructions rely heavily on comparisons of cranial anatomy, but until now, the fossil record of tarsiers has been limited to a single jaw and several isolated teeth. In this article, we describe cranial material of a fossil tarsiid from the middle-Eocene Shanghuang fissure-fillings in southern Jiangsu Province, China. This facial fragment, which is allocated to Tarsius eocaenus, is virtually identical to the corresponding anatomy in living tarsiers and differs substantially from that of early anthropoids such as Bahinia, Phenacopithecus, and Parapithecus. This new specimen indicates that tarsiers already possessed greatly enlarged orbits and a haplorhine oronasal configuration by the time they are first documented in the fossil record during the middle Eocene.; The phylogenetic position of tarsiers relative to anthropoids and Paleogene omomyids remains a subject of lively debate that lies at the center of research into anthropoid origins. Omomyids have long been regarded as the nearest relatives of tarsiers, but a sister group relationship between anthropoids and tarsiers has also been proposed. These conflicting phylogenetic reconstructions rely heavily on comparisons of cranial anatomy, but until now, the fossil record of tarsiers has been limited to a single jaw and several isolated teeth. In this article, we describe cranial material of a fossil tarsiid from the middle-Eocene Shanghuang fissure-fillings in southern Jiangsu Province, China. This facial fragment, which is allocated to Tarsius eocaenus, is virtually identical to the corresponding anatomy in living tarsiers and differs substantially from that of early anthropoids such as Bahinia, Phenacopithecus, and Parapithecus. This new specimen indicates that tarsiers already possessed greatly enlarged orbits and a haplorhine oronasal configuration by the time they are first documented in the fossil record during the middle Eocene.
关键词	China Primate Tarsiid
WOS标题词	Science & Technology
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关键词[WOS]	MIDDLE EOCENE ; PRIMATES ; ANTHROPOIDS ; CHINA ; MORPHOLOGY ; ORIGINS ; AFRICA
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000236362600013
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/3461
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）古哺乳动物研究室
通讯作者	Rossie, JB (reprint author), SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Anthropol, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA.
作者单位	1.SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Anthropol, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.Carnegie Museum Nat Hist, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rossie, JB,Ni, XJ,Beard, KC,et al. Cranial remains of an Eocene tarsier[J]. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,2006,103(12):4381-4385.
APA	Rossie, JB,Ni, XJ,Beard, KC,&Rossie, JB .(2006).Cranial remains of an Eocene tarsier.PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,103(12),4381-4385.
MLA	Rossie, JB,et al."Cranial remains of an Eocene tarsier".PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 103.12(2006):4381-4385.

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