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Early Primates
Plesiadapiforms, Adapoids, Omomyoids, Early Anthropoids
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 2
04/15/2009

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Term
Eocene Period
Definition
55-34 Million Years
Term
European Adapoids
Definition
Cercamoniine and Adapinae 
Term
North American Adapoids
Definition
Notharctines
Term
Cercamoniines 
Definition

Early to Late: Eocene

Donrusellia is the most primitive

Mahgarita in Texas

Term
Adapinae 
Definition

Late Eocene-Early Oligocene

Adapis

Term
Features of Adapoids
Definition

  • Post Orbital Bar
  • Stapedial Blood Supply
  • Free Ring Ectotympanic 
  • Hypocone
  • Smaller Incisors than canines
  • Divergent Hallux and Pollex
  • 2.1.4.3
  • Median Gap

Term
Primate Features of Adapoids
Definition

  • Post Orbital Bar
  • Nails
  • Petrosal Bulla
  • Divergent Pollex and Hallux

Term
Notharctine-Cantius
Definition

  • Most Primitive 
  • Reduced Paraconid/Hypocone
  • Unfused Mandibular symphysis
  • Diurnal
  • Quadrupedal Running and Leaping

Term
Notharctine-Notharctus 
Definition

  • Large Psuedohypocone 
  • Reduced Paraconid
  • Fused Mandibular Symphysis
  • Stapedial is smaller than promontory

Term
Cercamoniine
Definition

 

  • Donrusselia
  • True Hypocone
  • Quadrupedal leaper
  • Folivorous/Frugivorous

 

Term
Adapinae
Definition

  • Adapis
  • True Hypocone Loris Like (more suspensory)
  • Folivorous

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