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Dendropithecidae
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<h2 id="description">Description</h2> <p>The taxa included in Dendropithecidae, possess the following traits:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> <ul><li>Upper and lower canines strongly bilaterally compressed</li> <li>P3 moderately to strongly specialized for sectoriality</li> <li>Slender limb bones</li> <li>Humerus with a relatively straight shaft</li> <li>Medial epicondyle of the humerus is large and medially directed</li> <li>Epitrochlear fossa is well developed</li> <li>Zona conoidea is broad and shallow</li> <li>Trochlear articular surface exhibits minimal spooling</li> <li>Olecranon fossa is shallow</li></ul> <p><i>Micropithecus</i> appears to be sister to the crown catarrhini.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Harrison T (2013). "Catarrhine Origins" (PDF). In Begun DR (ed.). A Companion To Paleoanthropology. Wiley Blackwell. pp. 376–396. ISBN 978-1-118-33237-5. Archived from the original on 2023-09-05. <a href="978-1-118-33237-5" target="_blank">978-1-118-33237-5</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Harrison T (2013). "Catarrhine Origins" (PDF). In Begun DR (ed.). A Companion To Paleoanthropology. Wiley Blackwell. pp. 376–396. ISBN 978-1-118-33237-5. Archived from the original on 2023-09-05. <a href="978-1-118-33237-5" target="_blank">978-1-118-33237-5</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Rasmussen DT, Friscia AR, Gutierrez M, Kappelman J, Miller ER, Muteti S, et al. (March 2019). "Primitive Old World monkey from the earliest Miocene of Kenya and the evolution of cercopithecoid bilophodonty". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116 (13): 6051–6056. Bibcode:2019PNAS..116.6051R. doi:10.1073/pnas.1815423116. PMC 6442627. PMID 30858323. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6442627" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6442627</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Nengo, Isaiah; Tafforeau, Paul; Gilbert, Christopher C.; Fleagle, John G.; Miller, Ellen R.; Feibel, Craig; Fox, David L.; Feinberg, Josh; Pugh, Kelsey D. (2017). "New infant cranium from the African Miocene sheds light on ape evolution" (PDF). Nature. 548 (7666): 169–174. Bibcode:2017Natur.548..169N. doi:10.1038/nature23456. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 28796200. S2CID 4397839. <a href="https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1570349/1/Spoor_Nengo-et-al_text.pdf" target="_blank">https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1570349/1/Spoor_Nengo-et-al_text.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Rasmussen DT, Friscia AR, Gutierrez M, Kappelman J, Miller ER, Muteti S, et al. (March 2019). "Primitive Old World monkey from the earliest Miocene of Kenya and the evolution of cercopithecoid bilophodonty". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116 (13): 6051–6056. Bibcode:2019PNAS..116.6051R. doi:10.1073/pnas.1815423116. PMC 6442627. PMID 30858323. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6442627" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6442627</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Harrison T (2002). "Late Oligocene to middle Miocene catarrhines from Afro-Arabia". In Hartwig WC (ed.). The Primate Fossil Record. Cambridge University Press. pp. 311–338. Bibcode:2002prfr.book.....H. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Rasmussen DT, Friscia AR, Gutierrez M, Kappelman J, Miller ER, Muteti S, et al. (March 2019). "Primitive Old World monkey from the earliest Miocene of Kenya and the evolution of cercopithecoid bilophodonty". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116 (13): 6051–6056. Bibcode:2019PNAS..116.6051R. doi:10.1073/pnas.1815423116. PMC 6442627. PMID 30858323. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6442627" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6442627</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>