The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution

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	The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution
	Ni, Xijun; Meng, Jin
刊名	NATURE
	2013
卷号	498 期号:7452 页码:60—64
关键词	EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM MIDDLE EOCENE LOCOMOTOR ADAPTATIONS TEILHARDINA-BELGICA CHINA OMOMYIDAE REMAINS MORPHOLOGY DIVERSITY DENTITION
ISSN号	0028-0836
通讯作者	nixijun@ivpp.ac.cn
英文摘要	Reconstructing the earliest phases of primate evolution has been impeded by gaps in the fossil record, so that disagreements persist regarding the palaeobiology and phylogenetic relationships of the earliest primates. Here we report the discovery of a nearly complete and partly articulated skeleton of a primitive haplorhine primate from the early Eocene of China, about 55 million years ago, the oldest fossil primate of this quality ever recovered. Coupled with detailed morphological examination using propagation phase contrast X-ray synchrotron microtomography, our phylogenetic analysis based on total available evidence indicates that this fossil is the most basal known member of the tarsiiform clade. In addition to providing further support for an early dichotomy between the strepsirrhine and haplorhine clades, this new primate further constrains the age of divergence between tarsiiforms and anthropoids. It also strengthens the hypothesis that the earliest primates were probably diurnal, arboreal and primarily insectivorous mammals the size of modern pygmy mouse lemurs.
原文出处	10.1038/nature12200
公开日期	2013-11-27
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4144]
专题	古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_古哺乳动物研究室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ni, Xijun,Meng, Jin. The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution[J]. NATURE,2013,498(7452):60—64.
APA	Ni, Xijun,&Meng, Jin.(2013).The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution.NATURE,498(7452),60—64.
MLA	Ni, Xijun,et al."The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution".NATURE 498.7452(2013):60—64.