The prosimian fauna of the Fayum Eocene/Oligocene deposits of Egypt

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 69, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1998, Pages 286-294

  Simons, Elwyn L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cercamoniinae; Haplorhini; Omomyidae; Paleontology; Strepsirhini

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000624843     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000052717     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. Osborn HF: New fossil mammals from the Fayûm Oligocene. Bull Am Mus Nat Hist 1908;24:265-272.
2. Schlosser M: Beitrag zur Kenntnis der oligozänen Landsäugetiere aus dem Fayum, Ägypten. Beitr Paläontol Österreich-Ungarn Orient 1911;24:51-167.
3. Fourtau R: Contributions à l'étude des vertébrés du Miocène de l'Egypte. Cairo, Egyptian Survey Department, Government Press, 1920.
4. Hopwood AT: Miocene primates from East Africa. Ann Mag Nat Hist 1933;10:96-98.
5. Hopwood AT: Miocene primates from Kenya. Zool J Linn Soc 1933;38:437-464.
6. Simons EL: African origin, characteristics and context of earliest higher primates; in Tobias PV (ed): Hominid Evolution: Past, Present and Future. Taung Diamond Jubilee International Symposium. New York, Liss, 1985, pp 101-106.
7. Simons EL: Origins and characteristics of the first hominoids; in Delson E (ed): Ancestors: The Hard Evidence. New York, Liss, 1985, pp 37-41.
8. Simons EL: Egyptian Oligocene primates: A review. Yearb Phys Anthropol 1995;38:199-238.
9. Kappelman J, Simons EL, Swisher CC: New age determinations for the Eocene-Oligocene boundary sediments in the Fayum Depression, northern Egypt. T Geol 1992;100:647-668.
10. Simons EL: Description of two genera and species of late Eocene Anthropoidea from Egypt. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1989;86:9956-9960.
11. Simons EL: Discovery of the earliest known anthropoidean skull from the Paleogene of Egypt. Science 1990; 247:1567-1569.
12. Simons EL: Diversity in the early Tertiary anthropoidean radiation in Africa. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1992; 89:10743-10747.
13. Simons EL, Rasmussen DT, Gingerich PD: New cercamoniine adapid from Fayum, Egypt. J Hum Evol 1995; 29:577-589.
14. Gingerich PD: A new genus of Adapidae (Mammalia, Primates) from the late Eocene of southern France, and its significance for the origin of higher primates. Contrib Mus Paleontol Univ Mich 1975;24:163-170.
15. Gingerich PD: New species of Eocene primates and the phylogeny of European Adapidae. Folia Primatol 1977;28:60-80.
16. Franzen JL: The Messel primates and anthropoid origins; in Fleagle JG, Kay RF (eds): Anthropoid Origins. New York, Plenum Press, 1994, pp 99-122.
17. Simons EL , Rasmussen T: A whole new world of ancestors: Eocene anthropoideans from Africa. Evol Anthropol 1994;4:128-138.
18. Simons EL: Skulls and anterior teeth of Catopithecus (Primates: Anthropoidea) from the Eocene and anthropoid origins. Science 1995;268:1885-1888.
19. Hartenberger J-L, Marandat B: A new genus and species of an early Eocene primate from North Africa. Hum Evol 1992;7:9-16.
20. Godinot M, Mahboubi M: Earliest known simian primate found in Algeria. Nature 1992;357:324-326.
21. Godinot M, Mahboubi M: Les petits primates simiiformes de Glib Zegdou (Eocène inférieur à moyen d'Algérie). CR Acad Sci Paris 1994;319:357-364.
22. Gheerbrant E, Thomas H, Roger J, Sen S, Al-Sulaimani Z: Deux nouveaux primates dans l'Oligocène inférieur de Taqah (Sultanat d'Oman): premiers Adapiformes (Anchomomyini) de la Péninsule Arabique? Palaeovertebrata 1994;22:141-196.
23. Simons EL, Bown TM, Rasmussen DT: Discovery of two additional prosimian primate families (Omomyidae, Lorisidae) in the African Oligocene. J Hum Evol 1986;15:431-437.
24. Simons EL, Bown TM: Afrotarsius chatrathi, first tarsiiform primate (? Tarsiidae) from Africa. Nature 1985; 313:475-477.
25. Kay RF, Williams B: Dental evidence for anthropoid origins; in Fleagle JG, Kay RF (eds): Anthropoid Origins. New York, Plenum Press, 1995, pp 361-445.
26. Beecher RM: Function and fusion at the mandibular symphysis. Am J Phys Anthropol 1977;47:325-336.
27. Beecher RM: Evolution of the mandibular symphysis in Notharctinae (Adapidae, Primates). Int J Primatol 1983;4:99-112.
28. Ravosa MJ, Simons EL: Mandibular growth and function in Archaeolemur. Am J Phys Anthropol 1994;95: 63-76.