ANT 301 FA11
Introduction to Physical Anthropology
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LAB 8 HOMEWORK: FOSSIL PRIMATES
Using your lab and textbook reading, please fill out the chart below. This information will aid you in completing the in-class exercise.
We’ve filled in the information for one of the fossil primates to get you started.
Fossil Primate
Genus Name
Rooneyia
Necrolemur
Adapis
Smilodectes
Catopithecus
Epoch
Late
Eocene
Epoch Time
Range
(Ma - Ma)
about 36
MYA
Late
Eocene
Late
Eocene
Middle
Eocene
Late
Eocene
about 36
MYA
about 36
MYA
early
34 and 33
MYA
Aegyptopithecus Oligocene
(~38-34
MYA)
13 to about 7
MYA
Sivapithecus
Late
Miocene
Proconsul
Miocene
23-5.3Ma
23-5.3 MYA
Mesopithecus
late
Miocene
and
Pliocene
Geographic
Range
North America,
Europe, and
Asia
Taxonomic
classification
Justification for taxonomic classification
omomyid
Europe
Europe
North
America
North Africa
omomyid
adapid
adapid
ANTHROPOID:
CATARRHINE
Fayum in
Egypt
ANTHROPOID:
CATARRHINE
hominoid
Siwalik Hills
of Pakistan
and Indi
Africa
Europe
and western
Asia
Hominoid
cercopithecoi
d
Lack of a tail, Y-5 molars