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Micropithecus clarki , a small ape from the Miocene of Uganda
Author(s) -
Fleagle John G.,
Simons Elwyn L.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
american journal of physical anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1096-8644
pISSN - 0002-9483
DOI - 10.1002/ajpa.1330490402
Subject(s) - phyletic gradualism , extant taxon , paleontology , late miocene , neogene , geology , geography , zoology , biology , evolutionary biology , phylogenetics , structural basin , biochemistry , gene
Micropithecus clarki , from Miocene sediments of Napak, Uganda, is the smallest known hominoid primate, living or fossil. In facial morphology it is very similar to extant gibbons. Dentally, it is most similar to the small apes from the Miocene of Kenya, Dendropithecus and Limnopithecus. All of the apes from the early Miocene of East Africa seem to represent a single phyletic group that could be easily derived from the Oligocene apes known from the Fayum of Egypt. Pliopithecus from the Miocene of Europe is more closely allied with the Oligocene radiation than with the later East African radiation.