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Notharctus is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in North America and Europe during the late to middle Eocene. [1] N. tenebrosus (left) compared to Plesiadapis cookei (right), a plesiadapiform. Both come from Eocene Wyoming, though the latter is slightly geologically older. The body form of Notharctus is similar to that of modern rats.
Notharctus tenebrosus belonged to an extinct primate group known as Adapiformes and fossils have been found in North America. Adapiform primates were among the first primates to exhibit a set of adaptations for life in the trees, such as grasping hands, binocular vision, and flexible backs. In addition to this, small orbits in the genera ...
The Xujiayao and Xuchang material are known for their large skulls. [2] Xu and Bae distinguished H. juluensis by a low and wide skull, large brain size (over 1,000 cc), a small and inward mastoid part of the temporal bone, a depression over the parietal bone, defined temporal lines, a high squamous part of temporal bone, an ovoid ear canal, a Neanderthal-like bony labyrinth (in the ear), a ...
Pages in category "Primates of North America" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Taung Child (or Taung Baby) is the fossilised skull of a young Australopithecus africanus. It was discovered in 1924 by quarrymen working for the Northern Lime Company in Taung, South Africa. Raymond Dart described it as a new species in the journal Nature in 1925. The Taung skull is in repository at the University of Witwatersrand. [1]
Anthropologist Tony Kail, who talked to Jones about the photos of the skull, agreed. Kail has a master’s degree in cultural anthropology and has written books on African-Latin religious traditions.
A woman’s skull was discovered inside the walls of a suburban Illinois home back in 1978, and now—almost 50 years later—we finally know her name. Esther Granger was identified by the Kane ...
The chimpanzee–human divergence likely took place around 10 to 7 million years ago. [1] The list of fossils begins with Graecopithecus, dated some 7.2 million years ago, which may or may not still be ancestral to both the human and the chimpanzee lineage.