Basal Anthropoids from Egypt and the Antiquity of Africa's Higher Primate Radiation

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  • Erik R. Seiffert
    Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, and Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW, UK.
  • Elwyn L. Simons
    Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, and Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW, UK.
  • William C. Clyde
    Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, and Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW, UK.
  • James B. Rossie
    Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, and Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW, UK.
  • Yousry Attia
    Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, and Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW, UK.
  • Thomas M. Bown
    Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, and Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW, UK.
  • Prithijit Chatrath
    Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, and Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW, UK.
  • Mark E. Mathison
    Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, and Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW, UK.

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<jats:p> Early anthropoid evolution in Afro-Arabia is poorly documented, with only a few isolated teeth known from before ∼35 million years ago. Here we describe craniodental remains of the primitive anthropoid <jats:italic>Biretia</jats:italic> from ∼37-million-year-old rocks in Egypt. <jats:italic>Biretia</jats:italic> is unique among early anthropoids in exhibiting evidence for nocturnality, but derived dental features shared with younger parapithecids draw this genus, and possibly >45-million-year-old <jats:italic>Algeripithecus</jats:italic> , into a morphologically and behaviorally diverse parapithecoid clade of great antiquity. </jats:p>

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  • Science

    Science 310 (5746), 300-304, 2005-10-14

    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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