Gebo D L
Department of Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
Folia Primatol (Basel). 1988;50(1-2):3-41. doi: 10.1159/000156332.
Locomotor diversity of Eocene primates of North America and Europe was well developed, with species of both Adapidae and Omomyidae showing a wide spectrum of movements. Besides documenting the locomotor diversity in the Eocene, this paper shows that adapid foot morphology shares derived features with extant strepsirhines. Thus, the Omomyidae best resemble the ancestral euprimate in terms of foot morphology and locomotion. The generalized locomotor repertoire of the modern cheirogaleids represents the best model for the movement pattern of the ancestral euprimate.
北美洲和欧洲始新世灵长类动物的运动多样性发展良好，兔猴科和鼠狐猴科的物种都表现出广泛的运动方式。除了记录始新世的运动多样性外，本文还表明兔猴科的足部形态与现存的狐猴类具有共同的衍生特征。因此，就足部形态和运动方式而言，鼠狐猴科最类似于原始灵长类动物的祖先。现代倭狐猴的一般运动方式代表了原始灵长类动物运动模式的最佳模型。
