KMS Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
| Cranial remains of an Eocene tarsier | |
| Rossie, JB; Ni, XJ; Beard, KC; james.rossie@stonybrook.edu | |
| 2006 | |
| 发表期刊 | P NATL ACAD SCI USA
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| ISSN | 0027-8424 |
| 卷号 | 103期号:12 |
| 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. |
| 关键词 | Middle Eocene Primates Anthropoids China Morphology Origins Africa |
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| 收录类别 | SCI收录 |
| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/5007 |
| 专题 | 中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后） |
| 通讯作者 | james.rossie@stonybrook.edu |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Rossie, JB,Ni, XJ,Beard, KC,et al. Cranial remains of an Eocene tarsier[J]. P NATL ACAD SCI USA,2006,103(12). |
| APA | Rossie, JB,Ni, XJ,Beard, KC,&james.rossie@stonybrook.edu.(2006).Cranial remains of an Eocene tarsier.P NATL ACAD SCI USA,103(12). |
| MLA | Rossie, JB,et al."Cranial remains of an Eocene tarsier".P NATL ACAD SCI USA 103.12(2006). |
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