| Literature DB >> 15937103 |
Laurent Marivaux1, Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Syed Rafiqul Hassan Baqri, Mouloud Benammi, Yaowalak Chaimanee, Jean-Yves Crochet, Dario de Franceschi, Nayyer Iqbal, Jean-Jacques Jaeger, Grégoire Métais, Ghazala Roohi, Jean-Loup Welcomme.
Abstract
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.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID: 15937103 PMCID: PMC1150860 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0503469102
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205