Taxonomic Reassessment of TwoRamapithecusSpecimens
作者:
Leonard Owen Greenfield,
期刊:
Folia Primatologica
(Karger Available online 1974)
卷期:
Volume 22,
issue 2-3
页码: 97-115
ISSN:0015-5713
年代: 1974
DOI:10.1159/000155621
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Ramapithecus;D. sivalensis;D. laietanus;Morphological equivalence
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
It is suggested that two specimens assigned to Ramapithecus (G.S.I. D. 199 and B.M.N.H. 15423) should be transferred back to two Dryopithecus species (respectively D. sivalensis and D. laietanus). In most respects, these specimens display dryopithecine-like features. The fallacy of comparing individuals of unequal age has improperly influenced previous taxonomic assessments of these two specimens. It is also shown that some of the features used to argue hominid status for Ramapithecus are, in fact, commonly shared (alone or together) by extant and Miocene pongids. The lack of taxonomic significance for these features is discussed.
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