Bown T M
Folia Primatol (Basel). 1979;31(1-2):48-73. doi: 10.1159/000155873.
Three new genera and four new species of omomyid primates constitute the first record of the Primates from upland middle Eocene rocks of Wyoming. One of these, Strigorhysis, gen. nov., possesses broadly basined molars with highly crenulated enamel which probably indicates a good deal of tough vegetable matter in its diet. Each of the new genera could have descended from known Wasatchian or early middle Eocene anaptomorphines: Aycrossia, gen. nov., is a plausible derivative of Tetonius or Chlororhysis; Strigorhysis, gen. nov., is most similar to Absarokius noctivagus; and Gazinius, gen. nov., most closely resembles Absarokius and Anaptomorphus. The anaptomorphines were probably equally as diverse as the better documented omomyines in the middle Eocene, but may have preferred upland environments at the margins of the Tertiary basins of the Rocky Mountain Interior.
三种新的始镜猴科灵长目动物属和四个新物种构成了怀俄明州始新世中期高地岩石中灵长目动物的首次记录。其中之一,新属斯特里戈赖西斯(Strigorhysis),拥有宽盆状臼齿,其珐琅质有高度的细齿状,这可能表明其饮食中有大量坚韧的植物性物质。每个新属可能都源自已知的瓦萨奇期或始新世中期早期的近猴类:新属艾克罗西亚(Aycrossia)可能是泰托尼斯猴(Tetonius)或绿猴(Chlororhysis)的衍生物;新属斯特里戈赖西斯与夜行阿巴萨罗基猴(Absarokius noctivagus)最为相似;新属加齐尼猴(Gazinius)与阿巴萨罗基猴和近猴最为相似。在始新世中期,近猴类可能与记录更详尽的始镜猴类一样多样化,但它们可能更喜欢落基山内陆第三纪盆地边缘的高地环境。