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Unit 9

Across
A genus of Miocene dryopithecids found in Greece
The proposition that primates' unique suite of traits is an adaptation to living in trees.
The earliest anthropoid ancestors in the Oligocene, found in the Fayum, Egypt.
Eocene primates that are possibly ancestral to anthropoids
A later basal anthropoid genus found in the Fayum, Egypt, that may be ancestral to anthropoids
The proposition that unique primate traits arose as adaptations to preying on insects and on small animals
A propliopithecid genus from the Oligocene, probably ancestral to catarrhines; the largest primate found in the Fayum, Egypt
A genus of adapids from the Eocene
A genus of one of the largest adapids from the Eocene
Early Miocene apes found in East Africa
Paleocene organisms that may have been the first primates, originating from an adaptive radiation of mammals
Early Miocene apes found in Asia
Down
A separate order of early primate ancestors from the Paleocene, such as the plesiadapiforms
Early Miocene apes found in various locations in Europe
A suite of physical traits that enable an organism to live in trees
A genus of Miocene pongids from Asia; the largest primate that ever lived
Anthropoid ancestors from the Oligocene, found in Fayum, Egypt
Anthropoid ancestors from the Oligocene, found in Africa
A South American genus from the Oligocene, ancestral to platyrrhines
A parapithecid genus from the Oligocene, possibly ancestral to anthropoids
Euprimates of the Eocene that were likely ancestral to modern lemurs and possibly ancestral to anthropoids