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Fosil dari jantung Amazon memberikan bukti bahwa monyet Amerika Selatan berasal dari Afrika

Sejarah evolusi awal dari monyet di Amerika Selatan berselimut misteri . diperkirakan telah berasal  dari Afrika , bukti untuk hipotesis ini sulit untuk mendukung tanpa data fosil . Sebuah penemuan baru sekarang memperkenalkan bab utama saga evolusi mereka. Penemuan baru tiga monyet punah dari Peru timur petunjuk kuat bahwa monyet Amerika Selatan memiliki keturunan Afrika...read more 

Fossils from heart of Amazon provide evidence that South American monkeys came from Africa

Date:

February 4, 2015

Source:

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Summary:

The early evolutionary history of monkeys in South America is cloaked in mystery. Long thought to have journeyed from Africa, evidence for this hypothesis was difficult to support without fossil data. A new discovery now unveils a key chapter of their evolutionary saga. The discovery of three new extinct monkeys from eastern Peru hints strongly that South American monkeys have an African ancestry.

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for millions of years, South America was an island continent. Geographically isolated from Africa as a result of plate tectonics more than 65 million years ago, this continent witnessed the evolution of many unfamiliar groups of animals and plants. From time to time, animals more familiar to us today -- monkeys and rodents among others -- managed to arrive to this island landmass, their remains appearing abruptly in the fossil record. Yet, the earliest phases of the evolutionary history of monkeys in South America have remained cloaked in mystery. Long thought to have managed a long transatlantic journey from Africa, evidence for this hypothesis was difficult to support without fossil data.

A new discovery from the heart of the Peruvian Amazon now unveils a key chapter of the evolutionary saga of these animals. In a paper published February 4, 2015 in the scientific journal Nature, the discovery of three new extinct monkeys from eastern Peru hints strongly that South American monkeys have an African ancestry.

Co-author Dr. Ken Campbell, curator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM), discovered the first of these fossils in 2010, but because it was so strange to South America, it took an additional two years to realize that it was from a primitive monkey.

Mounting evidence came as a result of further efforts to identify tiny fossils associated with the first find. For many years, Campbell has surveyed remote regions of the Amazon Basin of South America in search for clues to its ancient biological past. "Fossils are scarce and limited to only a few exposed banks along rivers during the dry seasons," said Campbell. "For much of the year high water levels make paleontological exploration impossible." In recent years, Campbell has focused his efforts on eastern Peru, working with a team of Argentinian paleontologists expert in the fossils of South America. His goal is to decipher the evolutionary origin of one of the most biologically diverse regions in the world.

The oldest fossil records of New World monkeys (monkeys found in South America and Central America) date back 26 million years. The new fossils indicate that monkeys first arrived in South America at least 36 million years ago. The discovery thus pushes back the colonization of South America by monkeys by approximately 10 million years, and the characteristics of the teeth of these early monkeys provide the first evidence that monkeys actually managed to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Africa.

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Story Source:

The above story is based on materials provided by Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.

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Journal Reference:

1.    Mariano Bond, Marcelo F. Tejedor, Kenneth E. Campbell, Laura Chornogubsky, Nelson Novo, Francisco Goin. Eocene primates of South America and the African origins of New World monkeys. Nature, 2015; DOI:10.1038/nature14120

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150204134121.htm

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