The diversity,zoogeography and geochronology of monkeys |
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Authors: | M. Pickford |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institut de Paléontologie, 8 Rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France |
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Abstract: | The synoptic perspective of the fossil record of Old World monkeys presented in the preceding articles prompted the author to explore aspects of cercopithecid biology which are difficult to examine with parochial evidence. These aspects include origins and subsequent spread of monkeys through the Old World, relationship of major events in cercopithecoid history to global climatic history, zoogeography and palaeozoogeography, and comparison of palaentological and neontological versions of cercopithecid phylogenies. While there remain temporal and geographic gaps in the fossil record, difficulties in interpretations will persist, but for the cercopithecids, the fossil data base is sufficiently comprehensive to yield a view of several of the main events in their history. |
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Keywords: | Cercopithecoids Old World Geochronology Zoogeography Phylogeny Palaeoclimate |
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