1. Warm Epoch
2. Palocene Epoch
   1. None of "our" animals
   2. What do we want to know?
      1. Climate
      2. Geographic location of fossils
      3. Taxonomic desigation of fossils
      4. Geographic Origin of Primates
   3. Plesiadapiformes
      1. Plesiadapis
      2. Berruvius
      3. Navajovius
      4. Carpolestidae
      5. Traits
         1. Prosimian looking
         2. One can infer the direction of Primate evolution
      6. Not living primates because
         1. No Postorbital bar
         2. No Nails
   4. Carpolestes Simpsoni
      1. In between Plesiadiformes and Carpolestids
      2. Oldest evidence for nails and grasping big toe
   5. Picrodontids
      1. Middle and Late Paleocene
      2. Teeth and Diet
      3. Relationships to other mammals
3. Why is the Palocene important?
   1. Mammals explode as dominant specieses on earth
   2. Dinosaurs are gone, the big dudes got killed so it's a gold rush
4. Eocene Epoch
   1. Climate
      1. warmer and wetter
      2. more tropical in the northern hemisphere
      3. All modern orders have fossils represented in the eocene.
      4. Primates are commonplace
   2. Species
      1. Marked by the disappearance of most plesiodaptiforms
      2. Adaptids
         1. Notharctus
         2. Adapis
         3. Cantius
         4. General Morphology
            1. advanced grasping abilities
            2. leaping adaptations
            3. large brain
            4. nails not claws
            5. have postorbital bar
            6. reduction of snout
         5. Proposed taxonomic affinities.
            1. there are no anthropoids!
            2. and the strepp and haplorine are seperate!
            3. Plesiadaptiforms may or may not be primates then
      3. Arboreal Quadrepeds
   3. Emergence of pre-modern ancestor species
5. Where did Anthropoids come from?
   1. There are four major origin proposals
      1. tarsier origin
      2. omomyid origin
      3. seperate, ancient origin
      4. adapid origin
6. Platyrrhines Origin
   1. Branisella
   2. Tremacebus
   3. Dolichocebus
   4. No Living playrhines in south america
   5. monkeys first appear in mid to late holocene in S. America
7. Oligocene Epoch
   1. climate
      1. Cooling climate
      2. guides evolution with climate
      3. saber tooth tiger!
   2. geographic location of fossils
      1. Egypt
      2. limited desert today
      3. millions of years ago it was a tropical region
   3. Species
      1. Prosimians and Anthropoids
      2. Parapithecids
         1. apidium
            1. teeth and diet
            2. proposed social org
            3. general morphology
            4. mode of locomotion
      3. Propliopithecids
         1. controversy of taxonomic placement
      4. Oligopthecus
      5. Aegyptopithecus
      6. All Non-Anthropoids
         1. ape-like in dentition
         2. It's difficult to classify
         3. primitive dental formula of 2133 in Africa
   4. by the end of this era, south america and africa have pulled apart
   5. by the end, India has collided with asia
   6. The Fossils from egypt provide the only record of old world higher primate evolution from the entire epoch
   7. No Terrestrial species!
   8. No brachiators!
   9. Arboreality as primitve trait
8. Miocene Epoch
   1. Climate
   2. Habitat preference of fossils
   3. Fossils
      1. Proconsulids
      2. Proconsul
      3. Afropithecus
      4. Aegyptopithecus
      5. Kenyapithecus
      6. Otavipithecus
      7. Pliopithecids