Les primates non-humains pliocènes et plio-pléistocènes d’Afrique du Sud
At present the diversity of primates in South Africa is low but that was not the case during the Pliocene and the Plio-Pleistocene. The oldest South African fossils of Cercopithecoidea are dated between 5 and 4 million years (Langebaanweg and Bolt's Farm Cave System) but the remains are too fra...
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| description | At present the diversity of primates in South Africa is low but that was not the case during the Pliocene and the Plio-Pleistocene. The oldest South African fossils of Cercopithecoidea are dated between 5 and 4 million years (Langebaanweg and Bolt's Farm Cave System) but the remains are too fragmentary to be interpreted properly. Between 3 and 1 million years, various sites have yielded more significant collections. The colobines are mainly represented by the genus Cercopithecoides. The cercopithecines are very diverse but all belong to Papionina. During the same geological period, the fauna from South Africa differs from the East African one by the different diversity of Cercopithecoidea by which colobines and theropithecines are poorly represented but also by a greater number of species of Parapapio, a form close to baboons. Also in South Africa, we discovered the oldest baboon remains belonging to the genus Papio similar to the extant South African species, the chacma. In East Africa, baboons are known later. The evolution of this Cercopithecoidea diversity is probably related to environmental change related to climate change that took place during the last million years. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0cb81cb053a843988ab7d58cedd367912025-01-30T10:02:14ZengSociété Francophone de PrimatologieRevue de Primatologie2077-37572017-01-01710.4000/primatologie.2698Les primates non-humains pliocènes et plio-pléistocènes d’Afrique du SudDominique GommeryLaura Bento Da CostaAt present the diversity of primates in South Africa is low but that was not the case during the Pliocene and the Plio-Pleistocene. The oldest South African fossils of Cercopithecoidea are dated between 5 and 4 million years (Langebaanweg and Bolt's Farm Cave System) but the remains are too fragmentary to be interpreted properly. Between 3 and 1 million years, various sites have yielded more significant collections. The colobines are mainly represented by the genus Cercopithecoides. The cercopithecines are very diverse but all belong to Papionina. During the same geological period, the fauna from South Africa differs from the East African one by the different diversity of Cercopithecoidea by which colobines and theropithecines are poorly represented but also by a greater number of species of Parapapio, a form close to baboons. Also in South Africa, we discovered the oldest baboon remains belonging to the genus Papio similar to the extant South African species, the chacma. In East Africa, baboons are known later. The evolution of this Cercopithecoidea diversity is probably related to environmental change related to climate change that took place during the last million years.https://journals.openedition.org/primatologie/2698fossilsCercopithecoideaSouth AfricaPliocenePlio-Pleistocene |
| spellingShingle | Dominique Gommery Laura Bento Da Costa Les primates non-humains pliocènes et plio-pléistocènes d’Afrique du Sud Revue de Primatologie fossils Cercopithecoidea South Africa Pliocene Plio-Pleistocene |
| title | Les primates non-humains pliocènes et plio-pléistocènes d’Afrique du Sud |
| title_full | Les primates non-humains pliocènes et plio-pléistocènes d’Afrique du Sud |
| title_fullStr | Les primates non-humains pliocènes et plio-pléistocènes d’Afrique du Sud |
| title_full_unstemmed | Les primates non-humains pliocènes et plio-pléistocènes d’Afrique du Sud |
| title_short | Les primates non-humains pliocènes et plio-pléistocènes d’Afrique du Sud |
| title_sort | les primates non humains pliocenes et plio pleistocenes d afrique du sud |
| topic | fossils Cercopithecoidea South Africa Pliocene Plio-Pleistocene |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/primatologie/2698 |
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