Marivaux Laurent, Antoine Pierre-Olivier, Baqri Syed Rafiqul Hassan, Benammi Mouloud, Chaimanee Yaowalak, Crochet Jean-Yves, de Franceschi Dario, Iqbal Nayyer, Jaeger Jean-Jacques, Métais Grégoire, Roohi Ghazala, Welcomme Jean-Loup
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.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Jun 14;102(24):8436-41. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0503469102. Epub 2005 Jun 3.
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.
在其近全北区的近亲于始新世-渐新世边界附近灭绝之后,亚洲跗猴型灵长类和西瓦兔猴科灵长类在南亚长期保持着孑遗分布。我们在此报告从巴基斯坦渐新世沿海沉积物中发现的双猴科和始新猿科灵长类,这些发现表明,在始新世-渐新世过渡时期以气候恶化为特征的事件之后,类人猿主干类群在南亚也存活了下来。这些化石提供了有关早期类人猿进化的时间和古生物地理学方面的数据,并显著扩展了南亚古近纪类人猿主干类群进化的记录。