Virtual endocast of the early Oligocene Cedromus wilsoni (Cedromurinae) and brain evolution in squirrels

OC Bertrand, F Amador‐Mughal… - Journal of Anatomy, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Extant squirrels exhibit extensive variation in brain size and shape, but published
endocranial data for living squirrels are limited, and no study has ever examined brain …

New fossils of the oldest North American euprimate Teilhardina brandti (Omomyidae) from the paleocene–eocene thermal maximum

KD Rose, SGB Chester, RH Dunn… - American Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
More than 25 new specimens of Teilhardina brandti, one of the oldest known euprimates,
are reported from earliest Eocene strata of the southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. The new …

New euprimate postcrania from the early Eocene of Gujarat, India, and the strepsirrhine–haplorhine divergence

RH Dunn, KD Rose, RS Rana, K Kumar, A Sahni… - Journal of Human …, 2016 - Elsevier
The oldest primates of modern aspect (euprimates) appear abruptly on the Holarctic
continents during a brief episode of global warming known as the Paleocene-Eocene …

[HTML][HTML] Early euprimates already had a diverse locomotor repertoire: Evidence from ankle bone morphology

O Monclús-Gonzalo, DM Alba, A Duhamel… - Journal of human …, 2023 - Elsevier
The morphological adaptations of euprimates have been linked to their origin and early
evolution in an arboreal environment. However, the ancestral and early locomotor repertoire …

Astragalar and calcaneal morphology of the middle Eocene primate Anchomomys frontanyensis (Anchomomyini): implications for early primate evolution

J Marigó, I Roig, ER Seiffert, S Moya-Sola… - Journal of Human …, 2016 - Elsevier
Astragali and calcanei of Anchomomys frontanyensis, a small adapiform from the middle
Eocene of Sant Jaume de Frontanyà (Southern Pyrenean basins, northeastern Spain) are …

New postcranial elements for the earliest Eocene fossil primate Teilhardina belgica

DL Gebo, T Smith, M Dagosto - Journal of Human Evolution, 2012 - Elsevier
Teilhardina belgica is one of the most primitive fossil primates known to date and the earliest
haplorhine with associated postcranials, making it relevant to a reconstruction of the …

Additional postcranial elements of Teilhardina belgica: The oldest European primate

DL Gebo, R Smith, M Dagosto… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Teilhardina belgica is one of the earliest fossil primates ever recovered and the oldest fossil
primate from Europe. As such, this taxon has often been hypothesized as a basal tarsiiform …

New primate first metatarsals from the Paleogene of Egypt and the origin of the anthropoid big toe

BA Patel, ER Seiffert, DM Boyer, RL Jacobs… - Journal of human …, 2012 - Elsevier
The specialized grasping feet of primates, and in particular the nature of the hallucal
grasping capabilities of living strepsirrhines and tarsiers (ie,'prosimians'), have played …

The Mammals of the Late Eocene-Early Oligocene Solent Group. Part 2, Euarchonta (Nyctitheriidae and Primates), Lipotyphla, Chiroptera, Pseudorhyncocyonidae …

JJ Hooker - Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In part 2, the description of Nyctitheriidae is completed with newly found postcranial bones.
These include pisiform, magnum, unciform, entocuneiform and first metatarsal. The last two …

Tarsals of Sespedectinae (? Lipotyphla) from the middle Eocene of southern California, and the affinities of Eocene 'erinaceomorphs'

TA Penkrot, SP Zack - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Postcranial morphology of Paleogene lipotyphlans (Mammalia: Laurasiatheria) is poorly
known relative to dental morphology. When these elements can be referred, they have …