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词条 Nyanzapithecus pickfordi
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  1. Taxonomy

  2. Dental morphology

  3. Notes

  4. References

{{Speciesbox
| fossil_range = Middle Miocene
| image =
| genus = Nyanzapithecus
| species = pickfordi
| authority = {{Harvnb|Harrison|1986}}
}}Nyanzapithecus pickfordi was a species of primate from the Middle Miocene of Maboko Island, Nyanza Province, Kenya.[1] This species had an average body mass of around {{Convert|10|kg|abbr=on}} ({{Harvnb|Fleagle|1988}}).[2]

Taxonomy

Fifteen cranio-dental specimens of this species were collected from the island between the years 1933-73.[3]

During an expedition to Maboko Island in 1982–83, paleoanthropologist Martin Pickford recovered more than a hundred small catarrhine fossils. Among them, {{Harvnb|Harrison|1986}} described the new genus and species Nyanzapithecus pickfordi, characterized by several dental specializations, and also transferred the Rangwapithecus species R. vancouveringi to the genus renaming it N. vancouveringorum. Nyanzapithecus was considered closely related to Rangwapithecus and Mabokopithecus based on dental similarities, and an early relative of Oreopithecus bambolii. Nyanzapithecus was originally included in Oreopithecidae before being transferred to Proconsulidae. {{Harvnb|Kunimatsu|1997}} described a new species, N. harrisoni, from Nachola, Kenya.[4]

{{Harvnb|Benefit|Gitau|McCrossin|Palmer|1998}} considered Mabokopithecus clarki congeneric and even conspecific with N. pickfordi and thus renamed the latter Mabokopithecus pickfordi/clarki and Kunimatsu's species M. harrisoni.[5]

Dental morphology

Nyanzapithecus pickfordi has a dental formula of 2:1:2:3 on both the upper and lower jaw. The upper premolars were long and had buccal and lingual cusps which resembled each other in size the lower molars had deep notches. Based upon dental morphology this was a folivorous species.({{Harvnb|Fleagle|1988}})[2]

Notes

{{Wikispecies|Nyanzapithecus pickfordi}}
1. ^{{Harvnb|Fleagle|1988}}
2. ^{{Cite web | title = Nyanzapithecus pickfordi | publisher = The Primata | url =http://www.theprimata.com/nyanzapithecus_pickfordi.html}}
3. ^{{Harvnb|Harrison|1986}}
4. ^{{Harvnb|Harrison|2002| p=313}}
5. ^{{Harvnb|Tuttle|2006| pp=23–4}}

References

{{Refbegin}}
  • {{Cite journal

| last1 = Benefit | first1 = BR
| last2 = Gitau | first2 = SN
| last3 = McCrossin | first3 = ML
| last4 = Palmer | first4 = AK
| year = 1998
| title = A mandible of Mabokopithecus clarki sheds new light on oreopithecid evolution
| journal = American Journal of Physical Anthropology | volume = 26 (Suppl) | page = 109
| doi = 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(1998)26+<100::AID-AJPA8>3.0.CO;2-7 | ref = harv
  • {{Cite book

| last = Fleagle | first = JG | author-link = John G. Fleagle
| title = Primate Adaptation and Evolution
| year = 1988 | publisher = Academic Press | location = New York
| isbn = 9780122603402 | ref = harv}}
  • {{Cite journal

| last = Harrison | first = T | author-link = Terry Harrison (anthropologist)
| title = New fossil anthropoids from the Middle Miocene of East Africa and their bearing on the origin of the Oreopithecidae
| journal = American Journal of Physical Anthropology | year = 1986 | volume = 71 | issue = 3 | pages = 265–84
| url = http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/anthro/programs/csho/Content/Facultycvandinfo/Harrison/1986%20Harrison%20Oreopithecidae.pdf
| pmid = 3101504 | ref = harv | doi=10.1002/ajpa.1330710303}}
  • {{Cite book

| last = Harrison | first = T
| chapter = Late Oligocene to middle Miocene catarrhines from Afro-Arabia
| editor-last = Hartwig | editor-first = W | editor-link = Walter Hartwig
| title = The Primate Fossil Record
| publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 2002
| chapter-url = http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/anthro/programs/csho/Content/Facultycvandinfo/Harrison/2002%20Harrison%20Hartwig%20Vol.pdf
| isbn = 978-0-521-66315-1 | ref = harv}}
  • {{Cite journal

| last = Kunimatsu | first = Y
| title = New species of Nyanzapithecus from Nachola, northern Kenya
| journal = Anthropological Science | year = 1997 | volume = 105 | pages = 117–41
| issn =0918-7960 | ref = harv}}
  • {{Cite book

| last = Tuttle | first = R
| chapter = Seven Decades of East African Miocene Anthropoid Studies | page = 23
| editor1-last = Ishida | editor1-first = H
| editor2-last = Tuttle | editor2-first = R
| editor3-last = Pickford | editor3-first = M
| editor4-last = Ogihara | editor4-first = N
| editor5-last = Nakatsukasa | editor5-first = M
| title = Human origins and environmental backgrounds
| series = Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0KfjsoDXUtUC&pg=PA23
| publisher = Springer | year = 2006
| isbn = 978-0-387-29638-8 | ref = harv}}{{Refend}}{{Taxonbar|from=Q7070903}}

2 : Miocene primates of Africa|Fossil taxa described in 1986

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