来自罗马尼亚的Plio-Pleistocene Cercopithecidae (哺乳动物:灵长类动物) 的牙遗骸
Cristina Stan1, Virgil Drăgușin2, Ștefan Vasile2
1Romanian Academy, Emil Racoviță Institute of Speleology, 31 Frumoasă Street, Bucharest 010986, Romania; Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, 330 Old Main, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA.
Journal of human evolution
|July 2, 2024
概括
这项研究修订了罗马尼亚的Plio-Pleistocene灵长类动物化石,揭示了Dolichopithecus ruscinensis和Macaca sylvanus亚种. 古环境重建显示了这些灭绝的灵长类的各种息地,从马赛克景观到开放的干旱地区.
科学领域:
- 古生物学的古生物学
- 灵长类动物的进化
- 古生态学 古生态学
背景情况:
- 在欧洲,Cercopithecoidea超级家族在米奥森晚期到普莱斯托时代中期期间分布广泛.
- 甲虫表现出息地灵活性,而甲虫对环境更敏感.
- 罗马尼亚的普略纪和普纪化石遗址很少有灵长类动物的遗迹.
研究的目的:
- 修订和描述来自罗马尼亚地区的Plio-Pleistocene灵长类动物化石标本.
- 更新生物年代学和重建古环境条件.
- 为了解灭绝的灵长类息地偏好提供古生态框架.
主要方法:
- 对以前列出的灵长类标本进行修订,并对未发表的灵长类标本进行描述.
- 与相关化石材料进行比较分析.
- 基于动物组合的生物年代测定和古环境重建.
主要成果:
- 在罗马尼亚早期普略纪遗址 (Berești, Mălușteni, Ciuperceni-2) 发现了Dolichopithecus ruscinensis (colobine子).
- 已有记录的Mesopithecus monspessulanus和Paradolichopithecus sp. 在这些植物中. 来自马卢什特尼.
- 确认了来自贝特菲亚早期普莱斯托时代遗址的Macaca sylvanus亚种,扩大了对其时间层地图范围和分布的了解.
结论:
- 罗马尼亚的灵长类化石记录提供了对普利奥-普莱斯托时代动物动态的见解.
- 古环境重建表明,各种息地,包括马赛克和开放的景观,影响着灵长类的分布.
- 这项研究为已灭绝的欧洲灵长类动物建立了古生态框架.
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