Final exam Flashcards
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Paleocene
What appears?: order, post orbital bar and primates
Eocene
(56.0-33.9 Ma)
What appears?: Suborder, haplorrhini and strespsirhini, closed eye orbits.
Fossils include: omomyids and adapids
Oligocene
(33.9-23.03 Ma)
What appears?: infraorder, catarhini and platyrrhini, 2.1.2.3 cranial bone contact
Fossils include: parapithecids and propliopithecids
Miocene (23.03-5.33 Ma)
what appears?: superfamily, hominoidea and ceropithecoidea, wide nasal base, Brain> Face, no tail
Fossils include: proconsul and victoriapithecid
Order of epochs
- Holocene
- Pleitocene
- Pliocene
- miocene
- Ogliocene
- Eocene
- Paleocene
folgivore dental
premolars and molars have high cusps
faunivore dental
teeth can puncture, premolars and molars have high and pointed cusps
omnivore diets
incisors are broad, premolars and molars can be any shape