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オタヴィピテコス・ナミビエンシス (Otavipithecus namibiensis) は,南アフリカから来たミオセンの最初の原始人類である
G C Conroy1, M Pickford, B Senut
1Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Missouri 63110.
Nature
|March 12, 1992
まとめ
アフリカのナミビアで発見された新しいミオセンのホミノイド化石は,これらの古代類人猿の既知の範囲を拡大している. この発見は,南アフリカにおける初期のホミノイド進化の重要な証拠を提供します.
科学分野:
- パレオントロジー・パレオントロジー
- 霊長類の進化について
- アフリカ古人類学 アフリカ古人類学
背景:
- ミオセンのホミノイドは,類人猿と人間の進化を理解するための鍵です.
- アフリカの初期のホミノイドの化石の証拠は,東アフリカに集中しています.
- 南アフリカには,この重要な進化期に関する化石記録が限られている.
研究 の 目的:
- ナミビアのBerg Aukasから新しいミオセンのホミノイド化石が発見されたことを報告するためです.
- アフリカで最も南部のミオセンのホミノイドとして,この発見の古生物学的な意義を確立するために.
- 化石の下と,南アフリカにおけるホミノイドの進化への影響について分析する.
主な方法:
- カースト埋蔵地ブレクシアスの化石の発掘と回収.
- ホロタイプ下の詳細な形態学的分析 (P4-M3,P3,犬の根,切り口の膜を持つ右体).
- ホミノイド標本を含むブレッチアの堆積年齢を決定するファウナ分析.
主要な成果:
- 右下体の発見,ミオセンの新しいホミノイド種のホロタイプ.
- この化石は,赤道東アフリカの南に発見された最初のミオセンのホミノイドを代表し,既知の範囲を南緯20度まで拡大しています.
- 下は,他のアフリカとユーラシアの中間ミオセンのホミノイドと区別するユニークな特徴を示しています.
- 生物の年代測定は,ミオセンの中期後半に,およそ13 ± 100万年前に蓄積された標本を示しています.
結論:
- この発見は,アフリカにおけるミオセンのホミノイドの既知の地理的分布を大幅に拡大します.
- この化石は,南アフリカにおけるヒト類進化のオストラロピテシン以前の段階のユニークな証拠を提供している.
- この発見は,初期のホミノイドの多様性と分散を理解するために南アフリカの重要性を強調しています.
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