Anthropoid primates from the Oligocene of Pakistan (Bugti Hills): Data on early anthropoid evolution and biogeography.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Marivaux, Laurent; Antoine, Pierre-Olivier; Baqri, Syed Rafiqul Hassan; Benammi, Mouloud; Chaimanee, Yaowalak; Crochet, Jean-Yves; De Franceschi, Dario; Iqbal, Nayyer; Jaeger, Jean-Jacques; Métaistt, Grégoire; Roohi, Ghazala; Welcomme, Jean-Loup
- Source
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 6/14/2005, Vol. 102 Issue 24, p8436-8441. 6p.
- Subject
- *HUMAN geography
*PRIMATES
*BIOGEOGRAPHY
*MAMMALS
*PALEONTOLOGY
*GEOLOGY
- Language
- ISSN
- 0027-8424
Asian tarsiid and sivaladapid primates maintained relictual distributions in southern Asia long after the extirpation of their close Holarctic relatives near the Eocene-Oligocene boundary. We report here the discovery of amphipithecid and eosimiid primates from Oligocene coastal deposits in Pakistan that demonstrate that stem anthropoids also survived in southern Asia beyond the climatic deterioration that characterized the Eocene-Oligocene transition. These fossils provide data on temporal and paleobiogeographic aspects of early anthropoid evolution and significantly expand the record of stem anthropoid evolution in the Paleogene of South Asia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]