Branisella
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| Upper Oligocene | ||||||||||
| around 26 million years ago | ||||||||||
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| Branisella | ||||||||||
| Hoffstetter , 1969 | ||||||||||
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Branisella is an extinct genus of primates that occurred around 26 million years ago in the Upper Oligocene in South America . Branisella isthe second oldest known genus of the New World monkeys after Perupithecus , the only primate group living in America today (with the exception of humans). The only scientifically described species of the genusso faris Branisella boliviana .
Initial description
The first description of the genus Branisella and its type species Branisella boliviana was published in 1969 by Robert Hoffstetter .
Meaning of the finds
The finds, mostly jawbones and individual teeth, come from a site in Bolivia . From the structure of the teeth it was deduced that the New World monkeys did not evolve from the Omomyidae , an extinct family of primates that were formerly at home in America - an extinct family of primates similar to the goblin lemurs - but rather form an ancestral sister group of the Old World monkeys and in an unknown way - probably sailing on driftwood - had crossed the Atlantic .
literature
- M. Takai, F. Anaya, N. Shigehara, T. Setoguchi: New fossil materials of the earliest new world monkey, Branisella boliviana, and the problem of platyrrhine origins. In: American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Volume 111, No. 2, February 2000, doi : 10.1002 / (SICI) 1096-8644 (200002) 111: 2 <263 :: AID-AJPA10> 3.0.CO; 2-6 , ISSN 0275-2565 , PMID 10640951 , Pp. 263-281.
Web links
- Entry by Branisella Hoffstetter 1969 on paleobiodb.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Hoffstetter : Un primate de l'oligocene inférieur sud-Américan: Branisella boliviano gen. Et sp. nov. In: Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences . D, Sciences Naturelles. Volume 269, No. 4, Paris 1969, pp. 434-437.