Anthropoid primates from the Oligocene of Pakistan (Bugti Hills): data on early anthropoid evolution and biogeography.
Asian tarsiid and sivaladapid primates maintained relictual distributions in southern Asia long after the extirpation of their close Holarctic relatives near the Eocene-Oligocene boundary. We report here the discovery of amphipithecid and eosimiid primates from Oligocene coastal deposits in Pakistan that demonstrate that stem anthropoids also survived in southern Asia beyond the climatic deterioration that characterized the Eocene-Oligocene transition. These fossils provide data on temporal and paleobiogeographic aspects of early anthropoid evolution and significantly expand the record of stem anthropoid evolution in the Paleogene of South Asia.
Marivaux
Laurent
L
Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, Unité Mixte de Recherche-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 5554, c.c. 064, Université Montpellier II, Montpellier, France. marivaux@isem.univ-montp2.fr
Antoine
Pierre-Olivier
PO
Baqri
Syed Rafiqul Hassan
SR
Benammi
Mouloud
M
Chaimanee
Yaowalak
Y
Crochet
Jean-Yves
JY
de Franceschi
Dario
D
Iqbal
Nayyer
N
Jaeger
Jean-Jacques
JJ
Métais
Grégoire
G
Roohi
Ghazala
G
Welcomme
Jean-Loup
JL
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002980:Climate; D003710:Demography; D005580:Fossils; D000882:Haplorhini / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification; D009811:Odontometry; D010154:Pakistan; D010802:Phylogeny; D013045:Species Specificity; D014070:Tooth / Q000033:anatomy & histology*