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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Systematics of early and middle Miocene Old World monkeys
Journal of Human Evolution, Volume 57, No. 3, Year 2009
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Description
New information about the early cercopithecoids Prohylobates tandyi (Wadi Moghra, Egypt) and Prohylobates sp. indet. (Buluk and Nabwal, Kenya) is presented. Comparisons are made among all major collections of Early and Middle Miocene catarrhine monkeys, and a systematic revision of the early Old World monkeys is provided. Previous work involving the systematics of early Old World monkeys (Victoriapithecidae; Cercopithecoidea) has been hampered by a number of factors, including the poor preservation of Prohylobates material from North Africa and lack of comparable anatomical parts across collections. However, it is now shown that basal cercopithecoid species from both northern and eastern Africa can be distinguished from one another on the basis of degree of lower molar bilophodonty, relative lower molar size, occlusal details, symphyseal construction, and mandibular shape. Results of particular interest include: 1) the first identification of features that unambiguously define Prohylobates relative to Victoriapithecus; 2) confirmation that P. tandyi is incompletely bilophodont; and 3) recognition of additional victoriapithecid species. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Miller, Ellen R.
United States, Winston Salem
Wake Forest University
Benefit, Brenda R.
United States, Las Cruces
New Mexico State University
McCrossin, Monte L.
United States, Las Cruces
New Mexico State University
Plavcan, Joseph Michael
United States, Fayetteville
University of Arkansas
Leakey, Meave G.
Kenya, Nairobi
National Museums of Kenya
El-Barkooky, Ahmed Niazy
Egypt, Giza
Faculty of Science
Hamdan, Mohamed Abdel Rahman
Egypt, Giza
Faculty of Science
AbdelGawad, Mohamed K.
Egypt, Giza
Faculty of Science
Hassan, Safiya M.
Egypt, Giza
Faculty of Science
Simons, Elwyn L.
United States, Durham
Duke University
Statistics
Citations: 43
Authors: 10
Affiliations: 6
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.06.006
ISSN:
00472484
Study Locations
Multi-countries
Egypt
Kenya