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Origin of Primates Chapter 9

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Across
Projection of face well in front of braincase
Lithic materials which preserve fossils well
Found on hands and feet of most primates
____of primates explains why tarsiers are no longer placed with lemurs & lorises, platyrrhines or catarrhines
65 mya to the present is "age of ___
Abbreviation for Old World Monkeys
Few offspring and long parental care
Deferring to specialists from other fields of study may be called holistic study or _____
Result of drastic-abrupt change in global temperatures
If strepsirhines are adapoids, what is the term for Omomyoids?
Around 36 mya the Grande Coupure or ___happened
A rock cast or mold that reflects a formerly living animal or plant
Down
Most recent epoch of the Cenozoic
Huge ___or lower jaw is evidence of Gigantopithecus
A Hindu figure, is the source of the name for the northern India & Pakistan Miocene fossil ape
Low-oxygen setting which preserves a dead animal or plant
What happens from time of death until rediscovery
Rodent-like lower premolars were separated from incisors by one in Plesiadapiforms
Biological term for an anatomical trait that has been kept/retained from earlier forms of an animal
Abbreviation for last common ancestors of various early primates
Explanation for adapoids & omomyoids in North America and Europe between 54-34 mya
Messel, Germany remarkable Eocene, 47 mya primate discovery in volcanic lake bottom
___may have been ancestor of Gigantopithecus
Term for flowering plants which entice insects
Term for what happened at end of Mesozoic Era
Genetic comparisons that aid study of Old World Monkeys & apes to demonstrate shared common ancestor about 25 mya
Prefix meaning "ancient/old"