Know Your Primate: Anoiapithecus brevirostris

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Timothy McDougald

Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorrhini
Family: Hominidae
Subfamily: incertae sedis
Tribe: Dryopithecini
Genus: Anoiapithecus
Species: Anoiapithecus brevirostris

I have chosen Anoiapithecus brevirostris for this week’s “know Your Primate” because a paper on it has recently been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The paper, by Alba, Fortuny, and Moya-Sola, looks at enamel thickness in Anoiapithecus brevirostris, Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, and Dryopithecus fontani.
I”l have more about the paper later in the week. Continue reading →

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Friday Know Your Primate: Peirolapithecus catalaunicus

Posted on October 20, 2006 by Timothy McDougald

Today we have another fossil one of the more interesting fossils to have been discovered in the last few years if you ask me.
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Suborder: Anthropoidea
Superfamily: Hominoidea
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Pierolapithecus
Species: Pierolapithecus catalaunicus

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