Pan Ruliang, Groves Colin, Oxnard Charles
School of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
Am J Primatol. 2004 Apr;62(4):287-99. doi: 10.1002/ajp.20022.
Maxillary dental measurements from six specimens of Mesopithecus pentelicus, 64 cercopithecines, 59 African colobines, and 64 Asian colobines were analyzed by means of a "nested research design" that was specifically designed to explore the affiliation between fossils and extant cercopithecoids at different systematic levels. The results showed that the variation among taxonomic groups was mainly associated with size; however, in addition, interesting shape differences emerged, molars were shown to be important discriminators, Mesopithecus was confirmed as a colobine (as expected) and found to be closer to Asian species than to African ones, and the odd-nosed colobines were found to share more dental similarities with Mesopithecus than other colobines. The last finding is in contrast to previous studies, in which it was proposed that M. pentelicus is morphologically closely related to the African colobus and the gray langur (Semnopithecus).
对来自6个希腊中猴标本、64只猕猴科动物、59只非洲疣猴和64只亚洲疣猴的上颌牙齿测量数据，采用一种“嵌套研究设计”进行分析，该设计专门用于探究不同系统发育水平下化石与现存猕猴科动物之间的亲缘关系。结果表明，分类群之间的变异主要与体型有关；然而，除此之外，还出现了有趣的形状差异，臼齿被证明是重要的鉴别特征，希腊中猴被确认为疣猴（正如预期），并发现它与亚洲物种的关系比与非洲物种的关系更密切，而且发现奇鼻疣猴与希腊中猴在牙齿上的相似之处比其他疣猴更多。最后这一发现与之前的研究形成对比，之前的研究认为希腊中猴在形态上与非洲疣猴和灰叶猴（长尾叶猴属）密切相关。
