A parapithecid stem anthropoid of African origin in the Paleogene of South America

  • Erik R. Seiffert
    Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
  • Marcelo F. Tejedor
    Instituto Patagónico de Geología y Paleontología (CCT CONICET-CENPAT), 9120 Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina.
  • John G. Fleagle
    Department of Anatomical Sciences, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
  • Nelson M. Novo
    Instituto Patagónico de Geología y Paleontología (CCT CONICET-CENPAT), 9120 Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina.
  • Fanny M. Cornejo
    Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
  • Mariano Bond
    CONICET, División Paleontología Vertebrados, Museo de Ciencias Naturales de La Plata, B1900FWA La Plata, Argentina.
  • Dorien de Vries
    Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
  • Kenneth E. Campbell
    Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA.

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<jats:title>A South American anthropoid</jats:title> <jats:p> Although there are many primate lineages in the Old World, it is thought that the New World is home to just one group, the platyrrhine monkeys, which appear to have colonized the region during the Eocene. Seiffert <jats:italic>et al.</jats:italic> describe a new primate species on the basis of fossil molars found in the Peruvian Amazon that appears to belong to the Parapithecidae, a group of stem anthropoid primates best known from northern Africa (see the Perspective by Godinot). The fossils appear to be from a well-differentiated lineage, suggesting that this species had been evolving within South America for some time. It is likely that the ancestors of this new species arrived via a transatlantic rafting event when sea levels dropped at the Eocene–Oligocene transition ∼32 to 35 million years ago. </jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , this issue p. <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" issue="6487" page="194" related-article-type="in-this-issue" vol="368" xlink:href="10.1126/science.aba1135">194</jats:related-article> ; see also p. <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" issue="6487" page="136" related-article-type="in-this-issue" vol="368" xlink:href="10.1126/science.abb4107">136</jats:related-article> </jats:p>

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  • Science

    Science 368 (6487), 194-197, 2020-04-10

    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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