土耳其新发现的中新世地点，有关于腊玛古猿和西瓦古猿起源的证据。

New Miocene locality in Turkey with evidence on the origin of Ramapithecus and Sivapithecus.

作者信息

Andrews P, Tobien H

出版信息

Nature. 1977 Aug 25;268(5622):699-701. doi: 10.1038/268699a0.

Abstract

Collections in early Middle Miocene deposits at Pasalar in Turkey have yielded a very rich fauna. Included in this are two hominoid species referred here to Sivapithecus darwini (Abel) 1902 and Ramapithecus wickeri (Leakey) 1962. These are both more primitive morphologically and earlier in time than other species of these genera, and they provide evdence that Sivapithecus and Ramapithecus are closely related and that their early diversification may have occurred not in Africa but in Eurasia.

摘要

在土耳其帕萨拉尔的中新世中期早期沉积物中发现的化石群极为丰富。其中包括两种类人猿物种，在此分别被归为1902年命名的达尔文西瓦古猿（阿贝尔）和1962年命名的威氏腊玛古猿（利基）。这两种类人猿在形态上比这些属的其他物种更为原始，且在时间上更早，它们提供了证据，表明西瓦古猿和腊玛古猿密切相关，而且它们的早期分化可能并非发生在非洲，而是在欧亚大陆。