A new great ape from the late Miocene of Turkey

Anthropological Science

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-158

  Güleç, Erksin Savaş ^a   Sevim, Ayla ^a   Pehlevan, Cesur ^b   Kaya, Ferhat ^b  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

orakyerler; Hominoidea; Late Miocene; Primates; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548444698     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: 13488570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.070501     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Begun D.R. (2001) African and Eurasian Miocene hominoids and the origins of the Hominidae. In: Andrews P., Koufos G., and de Bonis L. (eds.), Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe. Volume 2. Phylogeny of the Neogene Hominoid Primates of Eurasia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 231-253.
2. Begun D.R. (2005) Sivapithecus is east and Dryopithecus is west, and never the twain shall meet. Anthropological Science, 113: 53-62.
3. Begun D., Güleç E., and Geraads D. (2003) Dispersal patterns of Eurasian homioids: implications from Turkey. In: Reumer J.W.F. and Wessels W. (eds.), Distribution and Migration of Tertiary Mammals in Eurasia. A Volume in Honour of Hans de Bruijn. DEINSEA 10: 23-39.
4. Begun D.R. and Kordos L. (1997) Phyletic affinities and functional convergence in Dryopithecus and other Miocene and living hominids. In: Begun D.R., Ward C.V., and Rose M.D. (eds.), Function, Phylogeny and Fossils: Miocene Hominoid Evolution and Adaptations. Plenum Press, New York, pp. 291-316.
5. Bernor R.L. (1983) Geochronology and zoogeographic relationships of Miocene hominoidea. In: Ciochon R.L. and Corruccini R.S. (eds.), New Interpretations of Ape and Human Ancestry. Plenum Press. New York, pp. 21-64.
6. Bernor R.L. (1986) Mammalian biostratigraphy, geochronology and zoogeographic relationships of the Late Miocene Maragheh Fauna, Iran. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 6: 76-91.
7. Bernor R.L., Solounias N., Swisher C.C. III, and Van Couvering J.A. (1996) The correlation of three classical "Pikermian" mammal faunas, Maragheh, Samos and Pikermi, with the European MN Unit System. In: Bernor R.L., Fahlbusch V., and Mittmann H.-W. (eds.), The Evolution of Western Eurasian Neogene Mammal Faunas. Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 137-156.
8. Brunet M., Guy F., Pilbeam D., Mackaye H.T., Likius A., Ahounta D., Beauvilain A., Blondel C., Bocherens H., Boisserie J.-R., De Bonis L., Coppens Y., Dejax J., Denys C., Duringer P., Eisenmann V., Fanone G., Fronty P., Geraads D., Lehmann T., Lihoreau F., Louchart A., Mahamat A., Merceron G., Mouchelin G., Otero O., Campomanes P.P., Ponce De Leon M., Rage J.-C., Sapanet M., Schuster M., Suder J., Tassy P., Valentin X., Vignaud P., Viriot L., Zazzo A., and Zollicofer C. (2002) A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa. Nature, 418: 145-151.
9. de Bonis L. and Koufos G. (1993) The face and the mandible of Ouranopithecus macedoniensis: description of new specimens and comparisons. Journal of Human Evolution, 24: 469-491.
10. de Bonis L. and Koufos G. (1994) Our ancestor's ancestor: Ouranopithecus is a Greek link in human ancestry. Evolutionary Anthropology, 3: 75-83.
11. de Bonis L. and Koufos G.D. (1997) The phylogenetic and functional implications of Ouranopithecus macedoniensis. In: Begun D.R., Ward C.V., and Rose M.D. (eds.), Function, Phylogeny and Fossils: Miocene Hominoid Evolution and Adaptations. Plenum Press, New York, pp. 317-326.
12. de Bonis L. and Koufos G. (1999) The Miocene large mammal succession in Greece. In: Agustí J., Rook L., and Andrews P. (eds.), Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe. Volume 1. The Evolution of Neogene Terrestrial Ecosystems in Europe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 205-237.
13. de Bonis L. and Melentis J. (1977) Les primates hominoideus du Vallesien de Macedonie (Grece). Etude de la machoire inférieure. Geobios, 10: 849-885.
14. de Bonis L., Bouvrain G., Geraads D., and Melentis J. (1974) Premiere decouverte d'un primates hominoide dans le Miocene supérieur de Macedonie (Greece). Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris, serie D, 278: 3063-3066.
15. de Bonis L., Bouvrain G., Geraads D., and Koufos G. (1990) New hominid skull material from the late Miocene of Macedonia in northern Greece. Nature, 345: 712-714.
16. de Bonis L., Bouvrain G., Geraads D., Koufos G., Sen S., and Tassy P. (1994) Les gisements de mammifères du Miocene supérieur de Kemiklitepe, turquie. 11. Biochronologie paleoecologie et relations paleogeographiques. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 4e serie16 C, 225-240.
17. de. Bonis L., Bouvrain G., and Koufos G. (1999) Palaeoenvironments of late Miocene primate localities in Macedonia, Greece. In: Agustí J., Rook L., and Andrews P. (eds.), Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe. Volume 1. The Evolution of Neogene Terrestrial Ecosystems in Europe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 413-435.
18. Haile-Selassie, Y. (2001) Late Miocene hominids from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Nature, 412: 178-181.
19. Haile-Selassie Y., Suwa G., and White T.D. (2004) Late Miocene teeth from Middle Awash, Ethiopia, and early hominid dental evolution. Science, 303: 1503-1505.
20. Kaymakçi N., de Bruijn H., White S.H., Van Dijk. M., Saraç G., and Unay E. (2001) Tectonic implications of the Neogene stratigraphy of the Çankiri basin with special reference to the Çandir locality (North-Central Anatolia, Turkey). In: Güleç E., Begun D.R., and Geraads D. (eds.), Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of the Miocene Hominoid Locality of Çandir. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 240: 9-28.
21. Kono R.T. (2004) Molar enamel thickness and distribution patterns in extant great apes and humans: new insights based on a 3-dimensional whole crown perspective. Anthropological Science, 112: 121-146.
22. Kostopoulos D.S., Sen S., and Koufos G.D. (2003) Magnetostratigraphy and revised chronology of the late Miocene mammal localities of Samos, Greece. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 92: 779-794.
23. Koufos G.D. (1993) Mandible of Ouranopithecus macedoniensis (Hominidae, Primates) from a new late Miocene locality of Macedonia (Greece). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 91: 225-234.
24. Moyà-Solà M. and Köhler M. (1995) New partial cranium of Dry-opithecus Lartet, 1863 (Hominoidea, Primates) from the upper Miocene of Can Llobateres, Barcelona, Spain. Journal of Human Evolution, 29: 101-139.
25. Senut B., Pickford M., Gommery D., Mein P., Cheboi K., and Coppens Y. (2001) First hominid from the Miocene (Lukeino formation, Kenya). Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des planetes, 332: 137-144.
26. Sevim A. and Kiper Y. (2002) The 23th International Symposium of Excavations, Surveys and Archaeometry, 23: 275-284 (in Turkish).
27. Sevim A., Begun D.R., Güleç E., Geraads D., and Pehlevan C. (2001) A new late Miocene hominoid from Turkey. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 32: 134-135.
28. Sickenberg O. (1975) Die Gliederung des höheren Jungtertiärs und Altquartärs in der Türkei nach Vertebraten und ihre Bedeutung für die internationale Neogen-Gliederung. Geologisches Jahrbuch (Regionale Geologie Ausland), Hannover, Reihe B, Heft 15, 167.
29. Smith T.M., Martin L.B., and Leakey M.G. (2003) Enamel thickness, microstructure and development in Afropithecus turkanensis. Journal of Human Evolution, 44: 283-306.
30. Smith T.M., Lawrence B.M., Reid D.J., de Bonis L., and Koufos G.D. (2004) An examination of dental development in Graecopithecus freybergi (= Ouranopithecus macedoniensis). Journal of Human Evolution, 46: 551-577.
31. Solounias N., Plavcan J.M., Quade J., and Witmer L. (1999) The paleoecology of the Pikermian biome and the savanna myth. In: Agustí J., Rook L., and Andrews P. (eds.), Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe. Volume 1. The Evolution of Neogene Terrestrial Ecosystems in Europe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 436-453.
32. Suwa G. and Kono R.T. (2005) A micro-CT based study of linear enamel thickness in the mesial cusp section of human molars: reevaluation of methodology and assessment of within-tooth, serial, and individual variation. Anthropological Science, 113: 273-289.
33. Ünay E., de Bruijn H., and Suata-Alpaslan F. (2006) Rodents from the Upper Miocene Locality Çorakyerler (Anatolia). Beitrage zur Palaontologie, 30: 453-467
34. Ward C.V., Leakey M.G., and Walker A. (2001) Morphology of Australopithecus anamensis from Kaanapoi and Allia Bay, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution, 41: 255-368.
35. White T.D. (1977) New fossil hominids from Laetoli, Tanzania. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 46: 197-230.
36. White T.D., Suwa G., and Asfaw B. (1994) Australopithecus ramidus, a new species of early hominid from Aramis, Ethiopia. Nature, 371: 306-312.