A 2Ma old baboon-like monkey from Northern Greece and new evidence to support the Paradolichopithecus – Procynocephalus synonymy (Primates: Cercopithecidae). Issue 121 (August 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kostopoulos, Dimitris S.; Guy, Franck; Kynigopoulou, Zoi; Koufos, George D.; Valentin, Xavier; Merceron, Gildas
• Is Part Of: Journal of human evolution. Issue 121(2018)
• Page Start: 178
• Page End: 192
• Publication Date: 2018-08
• Subjects: Papionini -- Early Pleistocene -- Dafnero -- Greece -- Eurasia; PALEVOPRIM (ex-IPHEP) Laboratoire Paléontologie Evolution Paléoécosystèmes Paléoprimatologie, UMR 7262 CNRS-INEE & University of Poitiers, France -- LGPUT Laboratory of Geology and Paleontology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki -- UCBL-FSL Geological Collections, UMR CNRS 5276, Université Claude Bernard Lyon-1, Faculté des Sciences -- MNHN. Paris Museum national d' Histoire naturelle de Paris. KUPRI -- Digital Morphology Museum of KUPRI (http://dmm3.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dmm/WebGallery/index.html) Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University; Human evolution -- Periodicals; Homme -- Évolution -- Périodiques; Human evolution; Periodicals; 599.93805
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.02.012
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0047-2484

Abstract

Abstract: A new fossil cranium of a large papionin monkey from the Lower Pleistocene site of Dafnero-3 in Western Macedonia, Greece, is described by means of outer and inner morphological and metric traits using high-resolution micro-computed tomography. Comparisons with modern cercopithecids and contemporaneous Eurasian fossil taxa suggest that the new cranium could equally be ascribed to either the Eurasian Paradolichopithecus or to the East Asian Procynocephalus . The combination of the available direct and indirect fossil evidence, including the new cranium from Dafnero, revives an earlier hypothesis that considers these two sparsely documented genera as synonyms. The timing and possible causes of the rise and demise of Paradolichopithecus - Procynocephalus are discussed.