Erik R Seiffert

Summary

Affiliation: Stony Brook University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Evolution and extinction of Afro-Arabian primates near the Eocene-Oligocene boundary
    Erik R Seiffert
    Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
    Folia Primatol (Basel) 78:314-27. 2007
  2. ncbi Last of the oligopithecids? A dwarf species from the youngest primate-bearing level of the Jebel Qatrani Formation, northern Egypt
    Erik R Seiffert
    Department of Anatomical Sciences, Health Sciences Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 8081, USA
    J Hum Evol 64:211-5. 2013
  3. ncbi Early primate evolution in Afro-Arabia
    Erik R Seiffert
    Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, USA
    Evol Anthropol 21:239-53. 2012
  4. ncbi Diversity in the later Paleogene proboscidean radiation: a small barytheriid from the Oligocene of Dhofar Governorate, Sultanate of Oman
    Erik R Seiffert
    Department of Anatomical Sciences, Health Sciences Center T 8, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 8081, USA
    Naturwissenschaften 99:133-41. 2012
  5. ncbi A fossil primate of uncertain affinities from the earliest late Eocene of Egypt
    Erik R Seiffert
    Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 8081, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:9712-7. 2010
  6. ncbi Convergent evolution of anthropoid-like adaptations in Eocene adapiform primates
    Erik R Seiffert
    Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794 8081, USA
    Nature 461:1118-21. 2009
  7. ncbi A new estimate of afrotherian phylogeny based on simultaneous analysis of genomic, morphological, and fossil evidence
    Erik R Seiffert
    Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794 8081, USA
    BMC Evol Biol 7:224. 2007
  8. ncbi New primate first metatarsals from the Paleogene of Egypt and the origin of the anthropoid big toe
    Biren A Patel
    Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 8081, USA
    J Hum Evol 63:99-120. 2012
  9. ncbi Additional material of the enigmatic Early Miocene mammal Kelba and its relationship to the order Ptolemaiida
    Susanne Cote
    Department of Anthropology and Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:5510-5. 2007
  10. ncbi Oligocene mammals from Ethiopia and faunal exchange between Afro-Arabia and Eurasia
    John Kappelman
    Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
    Nature 426:549-52. 2003

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Publications17

  1. ncbi Evolution and extinction of Afro-Arabian primates near the Eocene-Oligocene boundary
    Erik R Seiffert
    Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
    Folia Primatol (Basel) 78:314-27. 2007
    ....
  2. ncbi Last of the oligopithecids? A dwarf species from the youngest primate-bearing level of the Jebel Qatrani Formation, northern Egypt
    Erik R Seiffert
    Department of Anatomical Sciences, Health Sciences Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 8081, USA
    J Hum Evol 64:211-5. 2013
    ....
  3. ncbi Early primate evolution in Afro-Arabia
    Erik R Seiffert
    Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, USA
    Evol Anthropol 21:239-53. 2012
    ..Many of the important details of this story would not be known, and could never have been predicted, without the fossil evidence that has recently been unearthed by field paleontologists...
  4. ncbi Diversity in the later Paleogene proboscidean radiation: a small barytheriid from the Oligocene of Dhofar Governorate, Sultanate of Oman
    Erik R Seiffert
    Department of Anatomical Sciences, Health Sciences Center T 8, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 8081, USA
    Naturwissenschaften 99:133-41. 2012
    ....
  5. ncbi A fossil primate of uncertain affinities from the earliest late Eocene of Egypt
    Erik R Seiffert
    Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 8081, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:9712-7. 2010
    ....
  6. ncbi Convergent evolution of anthropoid-like adaptations in Eocene adapiform primates
    Erik R Seiffert
    Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794 8081, USA
    Nature 461:1118-21. 2009
    ....
  7. ncbi A new estimate of afrotherian phylogeny based on simultaneous analysis of genomic, morphological, and fossil evidence
    Erik R Seiffert
    Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794 8081, USA
    BMC Evol Biol 7:224. 2007
    ....
  8. ncbi New primate first metatarsals from the Paleogene of Egypt and the origin of the anthropoid big toe
    Biren A Patel
    Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794 8081, USA
    J Hum Evol 63:99-120. 2012
    ....
  9. ncbi Additional material of the enigmatic Early Miocene mammal Kelba and its relationship to the order Ptolemaiida
    Susanne Cote
    Department of Anthropology and Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:5510-5. 2007
    ....
  10. ncbi Oligocene mammals from Ethiopia and faunal exchange between Afro-Arabia and Eurasia
    John Kappelman
    Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
    Nature 426:549-52. 2003
    ....
  11. ncbi Afrotherian origins and interrelationships: new views and future prospects
    Terence J Robinson
    Evolutionary Genomics Group, Department of Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, Matieland 7602, South Africa
    Curr Top Dev Biol 63:37-60. 2004
  12. ncbi Additional remains of Wadilemur elegans, a primitive stem galagid from the late Eocene of Egypt
    Erik R Seiffert
    Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, and Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, United Kingdom
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:11396-401. 2005
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  13. ncbi Basal anthropoids from Egypt and the antiquity of Africa's higher primate radiation
    Erik R Seiffert
    Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, and Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW, UK
    Science 310:300-4. 2005
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  14. ncbi Revised age estimates for the later Paleogene mammal faunas of Egypt and Oman
    Erik R Seiffert
    Department of Earth Sciences and Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW, United Kingdom
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:5000-5. 2006
    ..Whatever gap exists in the Oligocene record of Afro-Arabian mammal evolution is now limited primarily to a poorly sampled 27- to 23-Ma window in the latest Oligocene...
  15. ncbi Fossil evidence for an ancient divergence of lorises and galagos
    Erik R Seiffert
    Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University, and Division of Fossil Primates, Duke Primate Center, 1013 Broad Street, Durham, North Carolina 27705, USA
    Nature 422:421-4. 2003
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  16. ncbi Stable isotope evidence for an amphibious phase in early proboscidean evolution
    Alexander G S C Liu
    Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, United Kingdom
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:5786-91. 2008
    ..These results lend new support to the hypothesis that Oligocene-to-Recent proboscideans are derived from amphibious ancestors...
  17. ncbi Early evolution and biogeography of lorisiform strepsirrhines
    Erik R Seiffert
    Department of Earth Sciences and Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
    Am J Primatol 69:27-35. 2007
    ..These patterns have important implications for interpreting an early lorisiform fossil record that is still composed primarily of jaws and isolated teeth...