Udabnopithek ( Udabnopithecus garedziensis ) is a type of extinct great apes found on the territory of Eastern Georgia in Udabno (60 km from Tbilisi). Age is the Upper Miocene (about 12 million years ago [1] ).
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Description
Known for the two upper teeth (the first upper premolar and first upper molar) and a fragment of the upper jaw, discovered in 1939 in the Georgian SSR , near the Gareji monastery in the Udabno area in southeastern Kakheti (60 km from Tbilisi). In 1945, the Georgian find was described by N. O. Burchak-Abramovich and E. G. Gabashvili [2] . This is the first and only discovery of the remains of an extinct great ape in the USSR . The phylogenetic position of the ultrobnopitec is unclear. According to the morphology of the teeth, ubibnopithek is very close to the genus Dryopithecus of the subfamily Dryopithecinae , especially to the species Dryopithecus brancoi .
The fossil anthropoid from Udabno is close to the tribe Dryopithecini , which now includes D. fontani , D. laietanus (from Spain), D. carinthiacus (from Rudabanya) and D. crusafonti , therefore, it is possible to save behind this anthropoid is the former species name and designate it Dryopitecus garedziensis . If the estimate of the age of life 8-8.5 million years is correct, then this is the latest driopitec [3] [4] .
See also
- Oreopitek
- Grekopitek
Notes
- ↑ Nesturh M. F. The origin of man // Chapter Two // The apes and their origin // Modern anthropoids
- ↑ Anthropology. Tutorial. Ya. Ya. Roginsky, M. G. Levin. 3rd Edition. M .: Higher School, 1978. 528 c.
- ↑ Gabunia L. K., Lordkipanidze D. O., Vekua A. K. The systematic position of Udabnopithecus garedziensis Burtsh. et gabash. (Udabno, Eastern Georgia) and its geological age // Archeology of the Caucasus 2011 №04
- ↑ Louis de Bonis, George D. Koufos, Peter Andrews . Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe: Volume 2: Phylogeny of the Neogene Hominoid Primates of Eurasia - 2001
Literature
- Biological Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. M. S. Gilyarov ; Edited .: A. A. Baev , G. G. Winberg, G. A. Zavarzin, and others. - M .: Sov. encyclopedia , 1986. - p. 656. - 831 p. - 100 000 copies
- GABUNIA, L., GABASHVILI, E., VEKUA, A., LORDKIPANIDZE, D. The late Miocene hominoid from Georgia. In BONIS, L .; KOUFOS, G .; The Cambridge University Press, 2001. P. 316–325.
- Burchak-Abramovich N. O., Gabashvili E. G. 1945. Higher apes from the upper tertiary deposits of Eastern Georgia. Reports of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR, 6, 458-464.
- Burchak-Abramovich N. O., Gabashvili E. G. 1946. The highest apes from the upper tertiary deposits of Eastern Georgia (Kakheti). Bulletin State. Museum of Georgia, 13-A, 235-273.
- Burchak-Abramovich N. O. 1973. Fossil primates of the territory of Moldova and Georgia. In the book. “Fauna of the Late Cenozoic of Moldova”, Chisinau. Stichnitsa, 49–57.
- Burchak-Abramovich N. O., Gabashvili EG. Finding the fossil higher apes within Georgia // Nature, 1950, no. 9, p. 70-72.