Primates quiz two Open book Answer each question with a couple of sentences – not long essays. 2 points each

1. How do we know what extinct primates ate?

2. What were the environmental and biological changes that were happening 65 million years ago?

3. How is Cartmill’s theory of the origin of primates different from the traditional one?

4. Each of these fossils is a likely early representative of an extant taxon; fill in the name of the modern group after each fossil (I did the first one for you):

                                    APIDIUM is apparently ancestral to Anthropoid primates

                                    AEGYPTOPITHECUS is apparently ancestral to ____________________

                                    PROCONSUL is apparently ancestral to ____________________

                                    VICTORIAPITHECUS is apparently ancestral to ____________________

                                    SIVAPITHECUS is apparently ancestral to ____________________

5. ON THE BACK : Eocene primates fall into two groups: omomyids and adapids; how are they different from each other, to whom are each likely ancestral?

PRINT NAME _________________________

BONUS What does “Structural ancestor” mean?