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Details Title: ANTH 225 Description: PHYSICAL ANTH Total Flash Cards: 16 Created: 11/28/2007 07:34:45	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term primate Definition post orbital bar/closure large brain relative to body size generalized dentition heterodont dentition eyes forward Term strepsirhine Definition Lemurs and Lorises postorbital bar brainsize = face size unfused frontal bone and mandible dental comb has a tail Term haplorhine Definition tarsier, catarrhine, platyrrhine orbital closure lrg brain size to body size fused frontal bone and mandible no dental comb may have a tail Term tarsier Definition orbital closure HUGE eyes unfused mandible at midline dental formula: 2133/1133 Term catarrhine Definition cercopithedoid and hominoids 2123 boney tube nostrils down may have a tail not prehensile Term platyrrhine Definition new world monkey 2133 boney ring nostirls outward has a tail maybe prehensile   Term cercopithecoid Definition old world monkey bilophodont long snout 2123 tail present Term hominoid Definition Y5 molar culsp flat nsout no tail 2123 Term sectorial complex Definition upper canine lower canine diastima unicusp first premolar Term molar cusp pattern and diets Definition tribosphenic: insectivore lopohodont/selenodont: herbivore bilophodont/Y-5: omnivore Term Paleocene Radiation/ species Definition 1st primates? Purgatorius Plesiadapiformes Term Eocene Radiation and species Definition adapids (lemur) -suborbital bar   omomyids (tarsier) -suborbital closure Term Oligocene Radiation and species Definition anthropoids  apidium (cercopithecoids) -2123 dental formula parapithecus (platyrrhine) - 3 premolar, 3 molars Propliopithecus and Aegyptopithecus (hominoid) boney ring, sml exterrnal auditory meatus Term Definition Term Miocene radiation and species Definition Proconsul (Pan troglodytes) -2123, temporal line, mandibular right angle   Sivapithacus (Pan pygmaeus) -2123, 5-Y, mandibular right angle Term Definition