Question

Aegyptopithecus is classified as a Catarrhine. What two specific traits support this classification?

Answer 1

Catarrhine relates with the primate group that includes old world monkey.

Aegyptopithecus provides a link between eocene and miocene epoch. It I classified under catarrhine due to:

1- Having apelike teeth along with the broad flat incisors and dimorphic canines quietly resemble with catarrhine.

2- The post cranial skeleton is monkey like, short and skull having strong temporalis muscle attachment along with a low saggital crest. Aegyptopithecus shows no link with hominoids or cercopithecoides of primate so it is believed to be linked with the primitive catarrhine .

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