来自中国东南部始新世中期裂隙填充物中的一个多样的新灵长类动物群。

A diverse new primate fauna from middle Eocene fissure-fillings in southeastern China.

作者信息

Beard K C, Qi T, Dawson M R, Wang B, Li C

机构信息

Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213.

出版信息

Nature. 1994 Apr 14;368(6472):604-9. doi: 10.1038/368604a0.

DOI:10.1038/368604a0

PMID:8145845

Abstract

We report the discovery of a fauna of primates from Eocene (approximately 45 Myr) deposits in China having a diversity greater than in European and North American localities of similar antiquity. From the many forms that will illuminate questions of primate phylogeny comes evidence for a basal radiation of primitive simians.

摘要

我们报告了在中国始新世（约4500万年前）沉积物中发现的灵长类动物群，其多样性高于欧洲和北美同期古老地区。从众多能够阐明灵长类系统发育问题的物种中，有证据表明原始猿猴出现了基础辐射。