Chapter 10 - Overview Of The Fossil Primates

Question 1

Pentadactyly

Answer 1

Five fingers and toes

Question 2

Orthograde

Answer 2

Upright body position

Question 3

Strepsirhine

Answer 3

Lemurs and lorises

Question 4

Haplorhine

Answer 4

Tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans

Question 5

Euarchonta

Answer 5

Tree shrews, flyin lemurs, and primates

Question 6

Superorder

Answer 6

Above order, below class and subclass

Question 7

Sister groups

Answer 7

Two new clades

Question 8

Last common ancestor (lca)

Answer 8

Final evolutionary link between two related groups

Question 9

Stem group

Answer 9

All taxa in a clade before a major speciation event

Question 10

Semiorder

Answer 10

Above suborder and below order

Question 11

Euprimates

Answer 11

True primates

Question 12

Postcranial

Answer 12

Below the skull

Question 13

Adapoidea

Answer 13

Lemur-like

Question 14

Omomyoidea

Answer 14

Tarsier and galago - like

Question 15

Homology

Answer 15

Similar traits based on descent

Question 16

Homoplasy

Answer 16

Similar traits that evolve independently in different groups

Question 17

Lorisoids

Answer 17

Earliest example of strepsirhine primates in fossil record

Question 18

Subfossil

Answer 18

Bone not old enough to have become completely mineralized fossil

Question 19

Bilophodont

Answer 19

Referring to molars that have four cusps oriented in two parallel rows, resembling ridges or lophs

Question 20

Paleoprimatologists

Answer 20

Anthropologists specializing in the study of the nonhuman primate fossil records

Question 21

Omomyoids

Answer 21

Earliest haplorhine group

Question 22

Catarrhine

Answer 22

Old world monkeys, apes, and humans

Question 23

Plattyrhines

Answer 23

New world monkeys

Question 24

Y-5 molar

Answer 24

Molar with 5 cusps