Rafting on a wide and wild ocean
International audience Scientists first met with skepticism the notion that small mammals crossed large oceanic barriers to populate faraway lands. However, progress in phylogenetics during the 1980s forced researchers to admit that the excellent North American fossil record showed no relatives of S...
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ftmuseumnhn:oai:HAL:hal-03897457v1 2024-02-11T10:08:37+01:00 Rafting on a wide and wild ocean Rafting on a wide and wild ocean: During the Oligocene, now-extinct monkeys crossed the treacherous ocean from Africa to South America Godinot, Marc Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie - Paris (CR2P) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2020-04-10 https://hal.science/hal-03897457 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb4107 en eng HAL CCSD American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1126/science.abb4107 hal-03897457 https://hal.science/hal-03897457 doi:10.1126/science.abb4107 ISSN: 0036-8075 EISSN: 1095-9203 Science https://hal.science/hal-03897457 Science, 2020, 368 (6487), pp.136-137. ⟨10.1126/science.abb4107⟩ [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2020 ftmuseumnhn https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb4107 2024-01-24T17:24:53Z International audience Scientists first met with skepticism the notion that small mammals crossed large oceanic barriers to populate faraway lands. However, progress in phylogenetics during the 1980s forced researchers to admit that the excellent North American fossil record showed no relatives of South American caviomorph rodents or platyrrhine (New World) monkeys, and that their closest relatives lived on the Afro-Arabian landmass during the Eocene epoch (56 to 34 million years ago). Therefore, to reach South America, these animals would have had to cross the South Atlantic Ocean—which probably was more than 1500 to 2000 km wide during this period. On page 194 of this issue, Seiffert et al. (1) report on fossils, from Santa Rosa in Amazonian Perú, that provide evidence of a third mammalian lineage of African origin that briefly appeared in South America in the early Oligocene (35 to 32 million years ago): a now-extinct parapithecid anthropoid monkey (genus: Ucayalipithecus). Article in Journal/Newspaper South Atlantic Ocean Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHM): HAL Faraway ENVELOPE(-28.763,-28.763,-79.200,-79.200) Science 368 6487 136 137 |
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International audience Scientists first met with skepticism the notion that small mammals crossed large oceanic barriers to populate faraway lands. However, progress in phylogenetics during the 1980s forced researchers to admit that the excellent North American fossil record showed no relatives of South American caviomorph rodents or platyrrhine (New World) monkeys, and that their closest relatives lived on the Afro-Arabian landmass during the Eocene epoch (56 to 34 million years ago). Therefore, to reach South America, these animals would have had to cross the South Atlantic Ocean—which probably was more than 1500 to 2000 km wide during this period. On page 194 of this issue, Seiffert et al. (1) report on fossils, from Santa Rosa in Amazonian Perú, that provide evidence of a third mammalian lineage of African origin that briefly appeared in South America in the early Oligocene (35 to 32 million years ago): a now-extinct parapithecid anthropoid monkey (genus: Ucayalipithecus). |
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