@article{35f9ffcc7e1a400199419bf1caedf87a,
title = "New discoveries of skeletal elements of Hadropithecus stenognathus from Andrahomana Cave, southeastern Madagascar",
abstract = "Remains of what appears to be a single, subadult Hadropithecus stenognathus were recovered from a previously unexcavated site at Andrahomana Cave (southeastern Madagascar). Specimens found comprise isolated teeth and cranial fragments (including the frontal processes of the orbits), as well as a partial postcranial skeleton. They include the first associated fore- and hind-limb bones, confirming the hind-limb attributions made by Godfrey and co-workers in 1997, and refuting earlier attributions by Lamberton in 1937/1938. Of particular interest here are the previously unknown elements, including a sacrum, other vertebrae and ribs, some hand bones, and the distal epiphysis of a femur. We briefly discuss the functional implications of previously unknown elements. Hadropithecus displayed a combination of characters reminiscent of lemurids, others more like those of the larger-bodied Old World monkeys, and still others more like those of African apes. Yet other characteristics appear unique. Lemurid-like postcranial characteristics may be primitive for the Archaeolemuridae. Hadropithecus diverges from the Lemuridae in the direction of Archaeolemur, but more extremely so. Thus, for example, it exhibits a stronger reduction in the size of the hamulus of the hamate, greater anteroposterior compression of the femoral shaft, and greater asymmetry of the femoral condyles. Nothing in its postcranial anatomy signals a close relationship to either the Indriidae or the Palaeopropithecidae.",
keywords = "Postcrania, Quaternary, Subfossil lemurs",
author = "Godfrey, {L. R.} and Jungers, {W. L.} and Burney, {D. A.} and N. Vasey and Ramilisonina and W. Wheeler and P. Lemelin and Shapiro, {L. J.} and Gary Schwartz and King, {S. J.} and Ramarolahy, {M. F.} and Raharivony, {L. L.} and Randria, {G. F N}",
note = "Funding Information: The fieldwork and laboratory research reported here was produced under a collaborative accord for paleoecological and paleontological research by David Burney, William Jungers, Laurie Godfrey, and the Laboratoire de Pal{\'e}ontologie et Anthropologie Biologique, Universit{\'e} d'Antananarivo, Madagascar. The new Andrahomana elements of Hadropithecus are currently housed at the Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts (contact Laurie Godfrey), and will be returned to the Universit{\'e} d'Antananarivo for accessioning. Comparative data on the bones of additional extinct and extant primates were collected at various museums, including the Universit{\'e} d'Antananarivo, Madagascar; the Mus{\'e}um National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris; the Natural History Museum, London; the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, MA; the Duke University Primate Center, Durham, NC; the United States National Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Comments on an earlier version of this manuscript by the editor, Susan Ant{\'o}n, as well as the anonymous associate editor and four reviewers, helped to improve this work. This research was supported by: NSF BCS-0129185 to DAB, WLJ, and LRG; NSF BCS-0237338 to LRG; NSF BCS-0503988 to GTS; NSF SBR-9617286 and NSF BNS-8823083, as well as funds from the University of Texas at Austin to LJS; NSERC and The Leakey Foundation to PL; and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Research Stipend, Portland State University, to NV. We thank Paul J. Godfrey and Luci Betti-Nash for help with the figures. Copyright: Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2006",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.04.012",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "51",
pages = "395--410",
journal = "Journal of human evolution",
issn = "0047-2484",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "4",
}