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⇱ Haplorhini


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Haplorhini

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Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)101405https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=101405
Rankinfraorder (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Primates : Haplorhini
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SynapsidaOsborn 1903
-Therapsida
infraorderCynodontia
-EpicynodontiaHopson and Kitching 2001
infraorderEucynodontiaKemp 1982
-ProbainognathiaHopson 1990
-MammaliamorphaRowe 1988
-MammaliaformesRowe 1988
classMammaliaLinnaeus 1758
orderPrimatesLinnaeus 1758
-Haplorhini
Common Namemonkey
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Haplorhinisuborderbelongs to Primatesstated without evidenceHershkovitz, 1974
Haplorhinisuborderbelongs to Euprimatesstated without evidenceRosenberger, 2006
Haplorhiniunranked cladebelongs to Euprimatesstated with evidenceBloch et al., 2007
Haplorhiniunranked cladebelongs to Primatesstated without evidenceWilliams and Kirk, 2008
Haplorhiniinfraorderbelongs to Euprimatesstated with evidenceRose et al., 2009
Haplorhiniunranked cladebelongs to Primatesstated without evidenceKay, 2010
Haplorhinisuborderbelongs to Primatesstated with evidenceFleagle, 2013
Status (PBDB)extant
Taxon Size (PBDB)1,210
Extant Size (PBDB)583 (48%)
First Recorded Appearance61.7 - 56.8 Ma
Paleocene
Environmentterrestrial (based on Mammalia)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Dietomnivore (based on Primates)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)K. C. Beard, T. Qi, and M. R. Dawson, B. Wang, C. Li. 1994. A diverse new primate fauna from middle Eocene fissure-fillings in southeastern China. Nature 368:604-609

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
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Tarsiiformes
infraorder
listed (PBDB)Tarsier82661.7 Ma
Paleocene
0 Ma
Extant
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Anthropoidea
unranked clade
listed (PBDB)1,66148.6 Ma
Eocene
0 Ma
Extant

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1918Haplorrhini Pocock
1974Haplorini Hershkovitz
1975Haplorhini McKenna p. 42
1976Haplorhini Szalay p. 172
1979Haplorhini Maw et al. p. 66
1987Haplorhini Setoguchi and Rosenberger p. 692
1991Haplorhini Rosenberger et al. p. 2137
1994Haplorhini Beard et al. p. 609
1996Haplorhini Hartwig and Cartelle p. 307
2002Haplorhini Muldoon and Gunnell p. 481
YearName and Author
2004Haplorrhini Poux and Douzery
2005Haplorrhini Wilson and Reeder
2006Haplorrhini Rosenberger p. 140
2007Haplorrhini Bloch et al. p. 1162
2008Haplorhini Williams and Kirk p. 929
2009Haplorhini Rose et al. p. 384
2010Haplorhini Burger p. 2
2010Haplorhini Kay
2011Haplorhini Chaimanee et al. p. 1957
2013Haplorhini Fleagle

References

Beard K. C., Qi T., et al (1994) A diverse new primate fauna from middle Eocene fissure-fillings in southeastern China, Nature 368, 604-609
Hershkovitz P. (1974) A new genus of Late Oligocene monkey (Cebidae, Platyrrhini) with notes on postorbital closure and platyrrhine evolution, Folia Primatologica 21 1, 1-35 doi:10.1159/000155594
McKenna M. C. (1975) Toward a phylogenetic classification of the Mammalia, Phylogeny of the Primates, Plenum Publishing, New York, 21-46
Szalay F. S. (1976) Systematics of the Omomyidae (Tarsiiformes, Primates) : taxonomy, phylogeny, and adaptations, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 156 3
Maw B., Ciochon R. L., et al (1979) Late Eocene of Burma yields earliest anthropoid primate, Pondaungia cotteri, Nature 282, 65-67
Setoguchi T., Rosenberger A. L. (1987) A fossil owl monkey from La Venta, Colombia, Nature, 692-694
Rosenberger A. L., Setoguchi T., et al (1991) Laventiana annectens, new genus and species: fossil evidence for the origins of callitrichine New World monkeys, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 88 6, 2137-2140
Hartwig W. C., Cartelle C. (1996) A complete skeleton of the giant South American primate Protopithecus, Nature 381, 307-311 doi:10.1038/381307a0
Muldoon K. M., Gunnell G. F. (2002) Omomyid primates (Tarsiiformes) from the Early Middle Eocene at South Pass, Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming, Journal of Human Evolution 43 4, 479-511
Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (2005) , Mammal species of the world : a taxonomic and geographic reference, 1-2142
Rosenberger A. L. (2006) Protoanthropoidea (Primates, Simiiformes): a new primate higher taxon and a solution to the Rooneyia problem, Journal of Mammalian Evolution 13 2, 139-146
Bloch J. I., Silcox M. T., et al (2007) New Paleocene skeletons and the relationship of plesiadapiformes to crown-clade primates, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 104 4, 1159-1164
Williams B. A., Kirk E. C. (2008) New Uintan primates from Texas and their implications for North American patterns of species richness during the Eocene, Journal of Human Evolution 55 6, 927-941
Rose K. D., Rana R. S., et al (2009) Early Eocene primates from Gujarat, India, Journal of Human Evolution 56 4, 366-404 doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.01.008
Burger B. J. (2010) Skull of the Eocene primate Omomys carteri from western North America, Paleontological Contributions 2, 1-19
Kay R. F. (2010) A new primate from the early Miocene of Gran Barranca, Chubut Province, Argentina: paleoecological implications, The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia, 220-239
Chaimanee Y., Lebrun R., et al (2011) A new Middle Miocene tarsier from Thailand and the reconstruction of its orbital morphology using a geometric– morphometric method, Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278, 1956-1963 doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2062
Fleagle J.G. (2013) Primate adaptation and evolution
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