McHenry H M, Corruccini R S
Folia Primatol (Basel). 1976;26(2):139-50. doi: 10.1159/000155735.
Uni- and multivariate analyses of 244 extant and 4 fossil primate femora indicate that none of the Tertiary hominoid fossil femora resembles the great apes. The dryopithecine femur from Moboko, Kenya, is most like Nasalis. Pliopithecus and the fossil from Eppelsheim are similar to one another and to Hylobates, but unlike the African dryopithecine. A new specimen from the Miocene deposits of Songhor, Kenya, is very similar to Hylobates and is probably a member of the hylobatine taxon, Lomnopithecus macinnesi. The lack of similarity between the African dryopithecine femur and the femora of the extant great apes in further evidence that the typical hominoid postcranial morphology evolved after the middle Miocene period.
对244个现存灵长类股骨和4个化石灵长类股骨进行的单变量和多变量分析表明，第三纪类人猿化石股骨中没有一个与大猩猩相似。来自肯尼亚莫博科的森林古猿股骨与长鼻猴最为相似。上新猿和来自埃佩尔海姆的化石彼此相似，也与长臂猿相似，但与非洲森林古猿不同。来自肯尼亚松霍尔中新世沉积物的一个新标本与长臂猿非常相似，可能是长臂猿类群洛氏猴的一个成员。非洲森林古猿股骨与现存大猩猩股骨之间缺乏相似性，进一步证明了典型的类人猿颅后形态是在中新世中期之后进化而来的。
