Oligocene%20Anthropoids

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Oligocene Anthropoids
Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 196
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Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 103
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Anthropoids all living and extinct monkeys,
apes and humans
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Anthropoids
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Anthropoids
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Oligocene Anthropoids
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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans

• 2. Dental apes
• prospered during the Oligocene

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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans

• Dental apes are apes with monkey-like bodies
  who did not hang or swing

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Times to Remember WebPage
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Oligocene Anthropoids
Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 196
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Major site
Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 195
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Oligocene

• El Fayum
• Parapithecus
• squirrel monkeys with teeth that associate them
  more with Old World monkeys

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Parapithecus
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Oligocene

• El Fayum
• Parapithecus
• Propliopithecus
• a small gibbon-like ape

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Propliopithecus
Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 179
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Oligocene

• El Fayum
• Parapithecus
• Propliopithecus
• Aegyptopithecus

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Oligocene Anthropoids

• Aegyptopithecus zeuxis
• Oligocene dental ape
• largest of the Fayum anthropoids
• ca. the size of a howler monkey
• 13 20 pounds

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Oligocene Anthropoids
Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 196
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Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 188
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Aegyptopithecus zeuxis
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Aegyptopithecus zeuxis
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Aegyptopithecus
Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 180
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Aegyptopithecus
Humankind Emerging, 7th ed., p. 180
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Aegyptopithecus zeuxis
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Aegyptopithecus
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Oligocene Anthropoids

• Aegyptopithecus
• is important because it bridges the gap between
  the Eocene fossils and the Miocene hominoids

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Oligocene Anthropoids
Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 196
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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans

• 3. True apes that brachiated probably
• originated in the Early Miocene
• ca. 20 17 mya

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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans

• Only after the evolution of arboreal suspension
  . . . would the modern meaning of the term ape
  have been applicable.

Campbell-Loy, p. 195
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General Features / Trends of Apes / Humans

• All living apes
• show forelimb-dominated locomotion
• (They climb, swing, or hang about by their arms
  -- brachiation)

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Next Miocene Hominoids
Understanding Physical Anthropology and
Archaeology, 9th ed., p. 196