作者
Nancy J Stevens, Erik R Seiffert, Patrick M O’Connor, Eric M Roberts, Mark D Schmitz, Cornelia Krause, Eric Gorscak, Sifa Ngasala, Tobin L Hieronymus, Joseph Temu
发表日期
2013/5/30
期刊
Nature
卷号
497
期号
7451
页码范围
611-614
出版商
Nature Publishing Group UK
简介
Apes and Old World monkeys are prominent components of modern African and Asian ecosystems, yet the earliest phases of their evolutionary history have remained largely undocumented. The absence of crown catarrhine fossils older than ∼20 million years (Myr) has stood in stark contrast to molecular divergence estimates of ∼25–30 Myr for the split between Cercopithecoidea (Old World monkeys) and Hominoidea (apes), implying long ghost lineages for both clades,,. Here we describe the oldest known fossil ‘ape’, represented by a partial mandible preserving dental features that place it with ‘nyanzapithecine’ stem hominoids. Additionally, we report the oldest stem member of the Old World monkey clade, represented by a lower third molar. Both specimens were recovered from a precisely dated 25.2-Myr-old stratum in the Rukwa Rift, a segment of the western branch of the East African Rift in Tanzania …
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