Archaeologica.org

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 012307.php

So man evolved out of Wyoming?

Ignacius clarkforkensis

Some of these species names are getting a bit strange.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 012307.php

So man evolved out of Wyoming?

But man couldn't have been smelting iron in N.A. before he was in the "Old World".

Or is that the "New World"...

Ya'll know I don't buy into the whole "Macro-Evolution" bit, but the internal reasoning...

Some of these species names are getting a bit strange.

I wonder if it's named after the person that discovered the fossils?

Or maybe the location?

Some guy named Ignacius Clarkforken.

Isn't the only primate from North America?
(Excpet for Bigfoot?)

stan wrote:Some guy named Ignacius Clarkforken.

Isn't the only primate from North America?
(Excpet for Bigfoot?)

Well at least they have I.Clarkforkensis' bones.

Bigfoot is still MIA.

Some guy named Ignacius Clarkforken.

...or maybe Clark Fork. Might also be a land mark near the find...

beats me. If his parents named him Ignacius...poor bas***d.

Reminds me of Johnny Cash's song: A Boy Named Sue.

But really...isn't this the only primate fossil found in NA?
Is it the ancestor of Lucy, et. al.?

stan wrote:But really...isn't this the only primate fossil found in NA?
Is it the ancestor of Lucy, et. al.?

I didn't have time to thoroughly read these but apparently they've been finding primates in the north american west for a while.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... mates.html
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~reffland/an ... ruled.html

Here's a searchable databse of the finds (if you know your phylogeny):
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~alroy/nafmsd.html

Forum Monk, thanks for providing those links on early
primates. More stuff to scratch my head about.
I liked the second link a lot...it puts things in perspective.

Stan