New infant cranium from the African Miocene sheds light on ape evolution.

Abstract:

:The evolutionary history of extant hominoids (humans and apes) remains poorly understood. The African fossil record during the crucial time period, the Miocene epoch, largely comprises isolated jaws and teeth, and little is known about ape cranial evolution. Here we report on the, to our knowledge, most complete fossil ape cranium yet described, recovered from the 13 million-year-old Middle Miocene site of Napudet, Kenya. The infant specimen, KNM-NP 59050, is assigned to a new species of Nyanzapithecus on the basis of its unerupted permanent teeth, visualized by synchrotron imaging. Its ear canal has a fully ossified tubular ectotympanic, a derived feature linking the species with crown catarrhines. Although it resembles some hylobatids in aspects of its morphology and dental development, it possesses no definitive hylobatid synapomorphies. The combined evidence suggests that nyanzapithecines were stem hominoids close to the origin of extant apes, and that hylobatid-like facial features evolved multiple times during catarrhine evolution.

journal_name

Nature

journal_title

Nature

authors

Nengo I,Tafforeau P,Gilbert CC,Fleagle JG,Miller ER,Feibel C,Fox DL,Feinberg J,Pugh KD,Berruyer C,Mana S,Engle Z,Spoor F

doi

10.1038/nature23456

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-08-09 00:00:00

pages

169-174

issue

7666

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0028-0836

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1476-4687

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nature23456

journal_volume

548

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