Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- PART I Fossil evidence and phylogeny
- PART II Biogeography and evolutionary biology
- PART III Anatomy of the fossil and living species of Theropithecus
- PART IV Behaviour and ecology of living and fossil species of Theropithecus
- Appendix I A partial catalogue of fossil remains of Theropithecus
- Appendix II Conservation status of the gelada
- Index
Appendix I - A partial catalogue of fossil remains of Theropithecus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- PART I Fossil evidence and phylogeny
- PART II Biogeography and evolutionary biology
- PART III Anatomy of the fossil and living species of Theropithecus
- PART IV Behaviour and ecology of living and fossil species of Theropithecus
- Appendix I A partial catalogue of fossil remains of Theropithecus
- Appendix II Conservation status of the gelada
- Index
Summary
This appendix has been included to provide readers with basic information on the collections of fossil specimens of Theropithecus that exist throughout the world. The lists of fossil specimens included here represent all the sites that have yielded Theropithecus fossils. The list of specimens from Ternifine represents the only published complete catalogue for Theropithecus at that site, while the remaining lists include only those fossils that could be confidently assigned to a species and that were reasonably complete. This meant the exclusion of small fragments of postcrania and mandibles from several East African sites and the exclusion of a very large collection of isolated teeth and tooth fragments from the Omo Basin. Details on specimens of Theropithecus from Kanjera and Olduvai that are housed in the Division of Palaeontology, National Museums of Kenya are provided here, but readers should note that most of the fossils from Kanjera and some from Olduvai are housed in the British Museum (Natural History) and that details of this collection have already been published in Napier (1981).
The lists of fossil specimens are arranged firstly according to site and then by species. At the beginning of each site entry, a short description of the age of the fossiliferous sediments is provided. Information on specimens from the various localities was provided by direct contributions from Eric Delson (ED), Gerald Eck (GE), and Meave Leakey (ML).
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- TheropithecusThe Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus, pp. 499 - 526Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993
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