Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Geology, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Laboratoire PALEVOPRIM, UMR 7262 CNRS INEE & University of Poitiers, France.
J Hum Evol. 2018 Aug;121:178-192. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.02.012. Epub 2018 May 18.
A new fossil cranium of a large papionin monkey from the Lower Pleistocene site of Dafnero-3 in Western Macedonia, Greece, is described by means of outer and inner morphological and metric traits using high-resolution micro-computed tomography. Comparisons with modern cercopithecids and contemporaneous Eurasian fossil taxa suggest that the new cranium could equally be ascribed to either the Eurasian Paradolichopithecus or to the East Asian Procynocephalus. The combination of the available direct and indirect fossil evidence, including the new cranium from Dafnero, revives an earlier hypothesis that considers these two sparsely documented genera as synonyms. The timing and possible causes of the rise and demise of Paradolichopithecus - Procynocephalus are discussed.
一个新的化石颅骨的大型papionin 猴子从下更新世网站的 Dafnero-3 在西马其顿，希腊，被描述的手段外和内形态和度量特征使用高分辨率的微计算机断层扫描。比较与现代狨科和同时代的欧亚大陆化石分类单元表明，新的颅骨同样可以归因于欧亚 Paradolichopithecus 或东亚 Procynocephalus。的组合提供了直接和间接的化石证据，包括从 Dafnero 新的颅骨，复兴了一个较早的假说认为，考虑到这两个记录很少的属作为同义词。的时间和可能的原因上升和下降 Paradolichopithecus - Procynocephalus 进行了讨论。
