| 词条 | Samburupithecus |
| 释义 |
| image = Samburupithecus kiptalami.JPG | image_alt = "Samburupithecus kiptalami" fossils, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris | image_caption = Samburupithecus kiptalami fossils, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris | fossil_range = {{fossil range|late Miocene}} | extinct = yes | genus = Samburupithecus | species = kiptalami | parent_authority = {{Harvnb|Ishida|Pickford|1997}} | authority = {{Harvnb|Ishida|Pickford|1997}} | display_parents = 3 | synonyms = | synonyms_ref = | subdivision_ranks = | subdivision = }}Samburupithecus is an extinct primate that lived in Kenya during the middle to late Miocene. The one species in this genus, Samburupithecus kiptalami, is known only from a maxilla fragment dated to {{Mya|9.5}} discovered in 1982[1] and formally described by {{Harvnb|Ishida|Pickford|1997}}.[2] The type specimen KNM-SH 8531 was discovered by the Joint Japan-Kenya Expedition at the SH22 fossil site in the Samburu District,[1] a locality where several other researchers found no ape fossils.[4] Samburupithecus lived during the so-called "African ape gap" {{Mya|14|7|Ma}}, a period from which very few hominoid fossils have been found in Africa until relatively recently.[3] This apparent gap, however, is now populated by a diversity of apes such as Nakalipithecus, Chororapithecus abyssinicus,[3] Otavipithecus,[4] and Nacholapithecus. CharacteristicsSamburupithecus was approximately {{convert|60|kg}}[5] and was most likely a frugivorous terrestrial quadruped. Paleoenvironmental reconstructions indicate that Samburupithecus most likely lived in a wooded habitat surrounded by savannah.[6]Defining cranial traits of this genus include low, broad zygomatics, straight alveolar process and large maxillary sinus. Defining dental traits include three-rooted premolars, thick enamel and bunodont cusps.[7] The teeth in the Samburupithecus type maxilla are comparable in size to those of the type mandible of Nakalipithecus, roughly the size of a modern female gorilla. The upper premolars of both are elongated mesiodistally (along the row of teeth), but those of Samburupithecus have more inflated cusps that are positioned more centrally, so that occlusal foveae and basins (depressions at top of teeth) are very restricted. This suggests that Samburupithecus was strongly specialized compared to other Miocene and extant apes. Another distinguishing feature between the two is the higher relief of the dentine/enamel junction in Samburupithecus.[8] These elongated teeth are unlike many other Miocene hominoids, linking Samburupithecus the taxon to gorillas, chimpanzees and hominins, but its relationships within this clade is at present unclear.[9] Because of this mixture of primitive and derived traits in the KNM-SH 8531 specimen, it has been proposed that Samburupithecus lived before the gorilla-chimpanzee-hominin split and, therefore, that it is a common ancestor to these primates alongside Ouranopithecus.[10] See also
Notes1. ^1 {{Harvnb|Yasui|Nakano|Ishida|1987}} 2. ^{{harvnb|Ward|Duren|2002| p=395}} 3. ^1 2 {{Harvnb|Bernor|2007}} 4. ^{{harvnb|Ward|Duren|2002| p=386}} 5. ^{{Harvnb|Fleagle|1999| p=456}} 6. ^{{Harvnb|Tsujikawa|2005| loc=Abstract}} 7. ^{{harvnb|Ward|Duren|2002| p=393}} 8. ^{{Harvnb|Kunimatsu|Nakatsukasa|Sawada|Sakai|2007| loc=Comparisons with Other Hominoids}} 9. ^{{Harvnb|Fleagle|1999| p=464}} 10. ^{{Harvnb|Cela-Conde|Ayala|2007| p=108}} References{{Refbegin|30em}}
| last = Bernor | first = Raymond L. | title = New apes fill the gap | journal = PNAS |date=December 2007 | volume = 104 | issue = 50 | pages = 19661–2 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.0710109105 | pmc = 2148351 | pmid=18077396 | bibcode = 2007PNAS..10419661B }}
| last1 = Cela-Conde | first1 = Camilo J. | last2 = Ayala | first2 = Francisco J. | title = Human Evolution — Trails from the Past | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2007 | isbn = 9780198567806 }}
| last = Fleagle | first = J.F. | title = Primate Adaptation and Evolution | publisher = Elsevier Academic Press | year = 1999 | isbn = 978-0-12-260341-9 }}
| last1 = Ishida | first1 = Hidemi | last2 = Pickford | first2 = Martin | title = A new Late Miocene hominoid from Kenya: Samburupithecus kiptalami gen. et sp. nov. | journal = Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série IIA | year = 1997 | volume = 325 | issue = 10 | pages = 823–29 | doi = 10.1016/S1251-8050(97)82762-0 | bibcode = 1997CRASE.325..823I }}
| last1 = Kunimatsu | first1 = Yutaka | last2 = Nakatsukasa | first2 = Masato | last3 = Sawada | first3 = Yoshihiro | last4 = Sakai | first4 = Tetsuya |author5=Hyodo, Masayuki |author6=Hyodo, Hironobu |author7=Itaya, Tetsumaru |author8=Nakaya, Hideo |author9=Saegusa, Haruo |author10=Mazurier, Arnaud |author11=Saneyoshi, Mototaka |author12=Tsujikawa, Hiroshi |author13=Yamamoto, Ayumi |author14=Mbual, Emma | title = A new Late Miocene great ape from Kenya and its implications for the origins of African great apes and humans | journal = PNAS |date=December 2007 | volume = 104 | issue = 49 | pages = 19220–5 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.0706190104 | pmc = 2148271 | pmid=18024593 | bibcode = 2007PNAS..10419220K }}
| last = Tsujikawa | first = Hiroshi | title = Palaeoenvironment of Samburupithecus Based on its Associated Fauna | journal = African Study Monographs | year = 2005 | volume = Suppl. | issue = 32 | pages = 51–62 | url = http://jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_suppl/abstracts/pdf/ASM_s32/51-62.pdf }}
| last1 = Ward | first1 = Steven C. | last2 = Duren | first2 = Dana L. | chapter = Middle and late Miocene African hominoids | editor-last = Hartwig | editor-first = Walter Carl | title = The Primate Fossil Record | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 2002 | isbn = 978-0-521-66315-1 | bibcode = 2002prfr.book.....H }}
| last1 = Yasui | first1 = Kinya | last2 = Nakano | first2 = Yoshihiko | last3 = Ishida | first3 = Hidemi | title = Excavation at the Fossil-Hominoid-Bearing Locality, Site-SH22 in the Samburu Hills, Northern Kenya | journal = African Study Monographs. Suppl. |date=March 1987 | volume = 5 | pages = 169–74 | hdl = 2433/68329 }}{{Refend}}{{Taxonbar|from=Q28683}} 7 : Miocene mammals of Africa|Prehistoric apes|Miocene primates of Africa|Fauna of Kenya|Fossil taxa described in 1997|Monotypic primate genera|Prehistoric primate genera |
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