| The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution | |
Ni, Xijun1,2,3 ; Gebo, Daniel L.4; Dagosto, Marian5; Meng, Jin2,3; Tafforeau, Paul6; Flynn, John J.2,3; Beard, K. Christopher7; nixijun@ivpp.ac.cn
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| 2013-06-06 | |
| 发表期刊 | NATURE
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| ISSN | 0028-0836 |
| 卷号 | 498期号:7452页码:60-64 |
| 文章类型 | Article |
| 摘要 | Reconstructing the earliest phases of primate evolution has been impeded by gaps in the fossil record, so that disagreements persist regarding the palaeobiology and phylogenetic relationships of the earliest primates. Here we report the discovery of a nearly complete and partly articulated skeleton of a primitive haplorhine primate from the early Eocene of China, about 55 million years ago, the oldest fossil primate of this quality ever recovered. Coupled with detailed morphological examination using propagation phase contrast X-ray synchrotron microtomography, our phylogenetic analysis based on total available evidence indicates that this fossil is the most basal known member of the tarsiiform clade. In addition to providing further support for an early dichotomy between the strepsirrhine and haplorhine clades, this new primate further constrains the age of divergence between tarsiiforms and anthropoids. It also strengthens the hypothesis that the earliest primates were probably diurnal, arboreal and primarily insectivorous mammals the size of modern pygmy mouse lemurs. |
| 关键词 | Eocene Thermal Maximum Middle Eocene Locomotor Adaptations Teilhardina-belgica China Omomyidae Remains Morphology Diversity Dentition |
| WOS标题词 | Science & Technology |
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| 关键词[WOS] | EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM ; MIDDLE EOCENE ; LOCOMOTOR ADAPTATIONS ; TEILHARDINA-BELGICA ; CHINA ; OMOMYIDAE ; REMAINS ; MORPHOLOGY ; DIVERSITY ; DENTITION |
| 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:000319947800032 |
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4143 |
| 专题 | 古哺乳动物研究室 |
| 通讯作者 | nixijun@ivpp.ac.cn |
| 作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origin, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Amer Museum Nat Hist, Div Paleontol, New York, NY 10024 USA 3.Amer Museum Nat Hist, Richard Gilder Grad Sch, New York, NY 10024 USA 4.No Illinois Univ, Dept Anthropol, De Kalb, IL 60115 USA 5.Northwestern Univ, Feinberg Sch Med, Dept Cell & Mol Biol, Chicago, IL 60611 USA 6.European Synchrotron Radiat Facil, F-38043 Grenoble, France 7.Carnegie Museum Nat Hist, Sect Vertebrate Paleontol, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ni, Xijun,Gebo, Daniel L.,Dagosto, Marian,et al. The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution[J]. NATURE,2013,498(7452):60-64. |
| APA | Ni, Xijun.,Gebo, Daniel L..,Dagosto, Marian.,Meng, Jin.,Tafforeau, Paul.,...&nixijun@ivpp.ac.cn.(2013).The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution.NATURE,498(7452),60-64. |
| MLA | Ni, Xijun,et al."The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution".NATURE 498.7452(2013):60-64. |
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