Palaeontological evidence for an Oligocene divergence between Old World monkeys and apes

Nancy J. Stevens (), Erik R. Seiffert, Patrick M. O’Connor, Eric M. Roberts, Mark D. Schmitz, Cornelia Krause, Eric Gorscak, Sifa Ngasala, Tobin L. Hieronymus and Joseph Temu
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Nancy J. Stevens: Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University
Erik R. Seiffert: Stony Brook University
Patrick M. O’Connor: Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University
Eric M. Roberts: School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University
Mark D. Schmitz: School of Geosciences, Boise State University
Cornelia Krause: Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University
Eric Gorscak: Ohio University
Sifa Ngasala: Michigan State University
Tobin L. Hieronymus: Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, Ohio 44272, USA
Joseph Temu: Tanzania Antiquities Unit, PO Box 2280, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Nature, 2013, vol. 497, issue 7451, 611-614

Abstract: Molecular evidence suggests that the evolutionary split between hominoids and cercopithecoids occurred between 25 and 30 Myr ago, but fossil evidence for crown-group catarrhines (cercopithecoids and hominoids) before 20 Myr ago has been lacking; newly described fossils of a stem hominoid and a stem cercopithecoid precisely dated to 25.2 Myr ago help to fill this gap in the fossil record.

Date: 2013
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