Dental Eruption Patterns in Parapithecidae (Primates, Anthropoidea)
- 1 January 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Brill in Folia Primatologica
- Vol. 24 (4) , 275-281
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000155697
Abstract
Radiographic analysis of mandibular fragments of the Oligocene primates Apidium phiomense and Parapithecus grangeri provides sequences of postincisor development and eruption. Although retaining the premolar eruption sequence (P2→P4→P3), the parapithecids possessed the derived feature of delayed canine appearance which, with other characters of cranial and postcranial morphology, aligns them with Anthropoidea and not Prosimii or platyrrhines.Keywords
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