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ANTH 225
PHYSICAL ANTH
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 2
11/28/2007

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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
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
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