Catarrhini - Wikipedia
The Catarrhini are all native to Africa and Asia. Members of this parvorder are called catarrhines. The Catarrhini are the sister group to the New World monkeys, the Platyrrhini.
Catarrhine | mammal | Britannica
In primate: Hands and feet. The hands of catarrhines show a greater range of precise manipulative activity than those of other primates. Lemurs, for example, lack the functional duality of the hands of most apes and Old World monkeys (catarrhines). Duality in hand function has been described in terms of precision and power… Read More; nose
Catarrhini - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Nonhuman primates can be divided in two groups: the catarrhines (infraorder Catarrhini), from Africa, Europe and Asia (Old World Primates) and the platyrrhines (Platyrrhini) from the Americas (New World or Neotropical Primates).
Catarrhine Life History - SpringerLink
2018年7月30日 · Catarrhine primates include species from three families: Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys; 159 extant species), Hylobatidae (gibbons and siamangs; 19 extant species), and Hominidae (great apes and humans; 7 extant species; Mittermeier et al. 2013).
Propliopithecoidea - Wikipedia
Propliopithecoidea is a superfamily of catarrhine primates that inhabited Africa and the Arabian Peninsula during the Early Oligocene about 32 to 29 million years ago. Fossils have been found in Egypt, Oman and Angola.
Catarrhini | Journal of Primates - Open Access Pub
Catarrhini are a group of Old World monkeys that includes humans, apes, and other primates. They are distinguished from other primates by their prominent noses, narrow noses, and relatively large brain volume. Catarrhini species are found in Africa, Asia, and North and South America.
Catarrhine Morphology - SpringerLink
2017年9月23日 · Catarrhine primates are the haplorhine [i.e., non-strepsirrhine (=lemuroids and lorisoids)] anthropoids (i.e., non-tarsiers) of the Old World, and they represent the most diversified group of primates living today.
Catarrhini - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Among primates, the common marmoset, Callithrix jacchus, phylogenetically belongs to the subfamiliy Callithrichinae within the infraorder of the Platyrrhini, inhabiting South and Central America.
New Oligocene primate from Saudi Arabia and the divergence …
2010年7月15日 · Here we describe the partial cranium of a new medium-sized (about 15–20 kg) fossil catarrhine, Saadanius hijazensis, dated to 29–28 Myr ago. Comparative anatomy and cladistic analysis shows...
Today, with the exception of humans, the catarrhines are native to Africa and southeastern Asia, but the fossil record indicates that apes and monkeys were also present in Europe and western Asia during the Miocene, from about 5 to 17 million years ago [1,2].