Biology:Rangwapithecus
Rangwapithecus | |
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Jaw of Rangwapithecus gordoni | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | †Dendropithecidae |
Subfamily: | †Nyanzapithecinae |
Genus: | †Rangwapithecus Andrews, 1974 |
Rangwapithecus is an extinct genus of ape from the Early Miocene of Kenya. Late Miocene phalanges from Hungary have also been assigned to this genus, but were later reclassified as Dryopithecus.[1]
Description
Rangwapithecus weighed approximately 15 kg (33 lb) and the size and shape of the ape's teeth indicate that it was a folivore.[2] An arboreal ape from the earliest Miocene[3] adapted to life in the rainforest, it is associated particularly with Mfangano Island[4] although the species previously inhabited a woodland-bushland environment.[5]
Taxonomy
Rangwapithecus was sympatric with Proconsul,[6] and may be synonymous with both Proconsul gordoni and Proconsul vancouveringi.[7] It is also similar to another species[vague] found in Africa.[8] Rangwapithecus gordoni and P. africanus are similarly sized though they differ morphologically, and both are restricted to Koru and Songhur.[9]
Notes
- ↑ Begun 1988
- ↑ Fleagle 1999, p. 462
- ↑ Lyell 1833, p. 343
- ↑ Andrews & Kelley 2007, Abstract
- ↑ Andrews & Evans 1979
- ↑ Cameron 2004, p. 62
- ↑ Tuttle 1986, p. 28
- ↑ Leakey & Leakey 1987, Abstract
- ↑ Andrews 2000, p. 356
References
- Andrews, Peter (May 2000). "Evolution and Environment in the Hominoidea". Shaking the tree: readings from Nature in the history of life. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-28497-2.
- Andrews, P; Cronin, JE (1982). "The relationships of Sivapithecus and Ramapithecus and the evolution of the orang-utan". Nature 297 (5867): 541–6. doi:10.1038/297541a0. PMID 7045678. Bibcode: 1982Natur.297..541A.
- Andrews, P.; Evans, E. N. (1979). "The Environment of Ramapithecus in Africa". Paleobiology 5 (1): 22–30. doi:10.1017/s0094837300006266. Bibcode: 1979Pbio....5...22A.
- Andrews, Peter; Kelley, Jay (2007). "Middle Miocene Dispersals of Apes". Folia Primatologica 78 (5–6): 328–43. doi:10.1159/000105148. PMID 17855786.
- Begun, David R. (1988). "Catarrhine phalanges from the Late Miocene (Vallesian) of Rudabánya, Hungary". Journal of Human Evolution 17 (4): 413–37. doi:10.1016/0047-2484(88)90030-9. http://anthropology.utoronto.ca/Faculty/Begun/catarrhine%20phalanges.pdf. Retrieved 2012-12-22.
- Cameron, D. W. (2004). Hominid adaptations and extinctions. UNSW Press. ISBN 9780868407166.
- Fleagle, JG (1999). Primate adaptation and evolution. Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-260341-9.
- Greenfield, Leonard Owen (1979). "On the adaptive pattern of "Ramapithecus"". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 50 (4): 527–48. doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330500406. PMID 111557.
- Greenfield, L. O. (1987). "A Late Divergence Hypothesis". in Ciochon, Russell L.; Fleagle, John G.. Primate evolution and human origins. Evolutionary Foundations of Human Behavior Series. Transaction Publishers. p. 222. ISBN 9780202011752. https://books.google.com/books?id=98dBTLwvHJ4C&pg=PA222. Retrieved 2011-12-29.
- Leakey, R.E.; Leakey, M.G. (1987). "A new Miocene small-bodied ape from Kenya". Journal of Human Evolution 16 (4): 369–87. doi:10.1016/0047-2484(87)90067-4.
- Principles of geology: being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface by reference to causes now in operation, Volume 3. J. Murray. 1833. https://books.google.com/books?id=sWIOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA343. Retrieved 2011-12-29.
- Schwartz, JH (1984). "The evolutionary relationships of man and orang-utans". Nature 308 (5959): 501–5. doi:10.1038/308501a0. PMID 6424028. Bibcode: 1984Natur.308..501S.
- Tuttle, R. (1986). Apes of the world: their social behavior, communication, mentality, and ecology. Noyes Publ.. p. 28. ISBN 9780815511045.
- Tuttle, Russell H. (2006). "Seven Decades of East African Miocene Anthropoid Studies". in Ishida, Hidemi; Tuttle, Russell; Pickford, Martin et al.. Human origins and environmental backgrounds. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Birkhäuser. pp. 15–29. ISBN 978-0387296388.
External links
- Wolpoff, M. H.; De Bonis, L.; Fleagle, J. G.; Frayer, D. W.; Greenfield, L. O.; Jacobs, K. H.; Protsch, R.; Rightmire, P. G. et al. (1982). "Ramapithecus and Hominid Origins [and Comments and Reply]". Current Anthropology 23 (5): 501–522. doi:10.1086/202893.
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