primate taxa

Question 1

strepsirrhini (suborder)

Answer 1

longer snouts, wet noses (rhinariums), scent marking, tapetum lucedum (eye shine), grooming claw, dental comb, solitary, nocturnal, arboreal, insectivores/frugivores

Question 2

haplorrhini (suborder)

Answer 2

more developed, dry nose, larger brains, large bodied, diurnal, frugivores/folivores, quadrepedal

Question 3

tarsiiformes (infraorder)

Answer 3

dry noses, eyes close together, nocturnal, small in size, faunivorous

Question 4

platyrrhini (infraorder)

Answer 4

flat noses, less sexually dimorphic, primitive dental formula, prehensile tail, smallest primates

Question 5

catarrhini (infraorder)

Answer 5

tear drop shaped nostrils, derived dental forumla, large bodied, sexually dimorphic, quadrupedal, developed vision, diurnal

Question 6

cercopthecoidea (superfamily)

Answer 6

quadrupedal, bilophodont(four molars), ischial callosities (pads for sitting)

Question 7

hominoidea (superfamily)

Answer 7

y-5 molars, long arms, shoulders to the side, shallow wide ribcage, short lower back, long collarbones, no tail,