Publications [#313982] of Elwyn L. Simons

Papers Published

1. ER Seiffert, EL Simons, WC Clyde, JB Rossie, Y Attia, TM Bown, P Chatrath and ME Mathison, Paleontology: Basal anthropoids from Egypt and the antiquity of Africa's higher primate radiation, Science, vol. 310 no. 5746 (October, 2005), pp. 300-304, ISSN 0036-8075 [doi]
   (last updated on 2016/07/08)

   Abstract:
   Early anthropoid evolution in Afro-Arabia is poorly documented, with only a few isolated teeth known from before ∼35 million years ago. Here we describe craniodental remains of the primitive anthropoid Biretia from ∼37-million-year-old rocks in Egypt. Biretia is unique among early anthropoids in exhibiting evidence for nocturnality, but derived dental features shared with younger parapithecids draw this genus, and possibly >45-million-year-old Algeripithecus, into a morphologically and behaviorally diverse parapithecoid clade of great antiquity.