1. From Tree Shrew To Ape

Question 1

What is the order of each era?

Answer 1

PEOMPPH

Question 2

What happened during the Cenozoic era?

Answer 2

Overall cooling/changing temps caused by plate tectonics

Question 2

P=

Answer 2

Paleocene

Question 3

Angiosperm had an:

Answer 3

adaptive radiation

Question 4

What started to sprout

Answer 4

Flowering plants/large fruit

Question 5

Because dinosaurs wiped out, what did this create?

Answer 5

Switching to plants that produced fruits caused a thriving windfall for primates to eat

Question 6

What came first, gymnosperm or angiosperm?

Answer 6

Gymnosperm

Question 7

Gymnosperm environment

Answer 7

non-flowering trees
hot
open
dominant animals= reptiles

Question 8

Angiosperm environment

Answer 8

Lush
cooler
closed
Dominant animals: Mammals/birds

Question 9

E=

Answer 9

Eocene

Question 10

During the end of the Paleocene era, what started to happen?

Answer 10

primate-like creatures started to appear

Question 11

What was the climate like?

Answer 11

Temps started to rise
terrestrial animals started to become extinct
More modern mammals started to emerge

Question 12

Eococene environment:

Answer 12

Tropical Climates
Rainforests started to appear

Question 13

Because of these habitats emerging, what started to happen to primates?

Answer 13

They started to migrate different places

Question 14

What are the 2 eococene primates?

Answer 14

Omomyiforms & Adapiforms

Question 15

Omomyiforms resembled?

Answer 15

Tarsiers

Question 16

Adapiforms resembled:

Answer 16

lemurs

Question 17

O=

Answer 17

Oligocene

Question 18

What was the climate change like?

Answer 18

sea water
much cooler
antarctic ice cap develops
tropicals start to disappear

Question 19

M=

Answer 19

Milocene

Question 20

What was the climate like?

Answer 20

Warming starts to begin
tropical forests start to reappear again

Question 21

What primate group radiation started to come

Answer 21

Ape radiation

Question 22

Proconsul species are apes or monkeys?

Answer 22

apes

Question 23

Where did Oreopithecus live, and why do scientists think it might have been bipedal?

Answer 23

Found in Tuscany
inner m & displaced big toe

Question 24

Have scientists found any significant ape fossils in Africa from between 15-8 Ma?

Answer 24

No, there has been a gap

Question 25

What were the characteristics of the Plesiadapiformes, and what epoch did they live in?

Answer 25

Non-primate traits, paleocene molar shape, grasping hands, long snout, eyes on the side of head, and no post orbital bar

Question 26

Were Plesiadapiforms the ancestors of primates, or a sister group?

Answer 26

Sister group

Question 27

Which living mammals are most closely related to primates?

Answer 27

flying lemurs, tree shrews, bats and Plesiadapiforms

Question 28

Which group of very small primates was likely to be the ancestors of all Haplorrhines?

Answer 28

ommyoid

Question 29

Where and when were the earliest unambiguous haplorrhines found?

Answer 29

Fayum, Egypt

Question 30

Next P=

Answer 30

Pliocene

Question 31

Third P=

Answer 31

Pleistocene

Question 32

H=

Answer 32

Holocene