Fossil Proto-Ape

Japanese: 化石原猿 - かせきげんえん
Fossil Proto-Ape

…Some people believe that this morphology is an adaptation to eating fruit. In the Paleocene and Eocene, various fossil prosimians were widely dispersed and appeared. In the Paleocene, North America was connected to Asia by the Bering land bridge, and prosimians spread to both continents along with many other primitive mammals. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "fossil proto-apes" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…この形態を果実食への適応と考える人もいる。暁新世および始新世には,各種の化石原猿類が豊富に放散・出現した。暁新世に北アメリカ大陸はベーリング陸橋でアジア大陸とつながり,多くの原始哺乳類とともに原猿類も両大陸に広がった。…

※「化石原猿」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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