Paleontological Study on Fossil Hominoids in Eurasia

• Project/Area Number: 18370098
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Anthropology
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: KUNIMATSU Yutaka Kyoto University, 霊長類研究所, 助教 (80243111)
• Project Period (FY): 2006 – 2008
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2008)
• Budget Amount: ¥6,590,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000); Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000); Fiscal Year 2007: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000); Fiscal Year 2006: ¥2,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000)
• Keywords: ヒト上科 / ユーラシア / 後期新生代 / アフリカ / 化石 / 中新世 / ギリシア / 東南アジア / 大型類人猿 / 生物地理学 / 古環境

Research Abstract

西ユーラシアの中新世後期の化石類人猿であるウーラノピテクス、アンカラピテクスなどに関する研究をおこない、アフリカの同時代の化石類人猿との比較をした。化石類人猿研究において、まだ空白地帯であるイランにおいて予備的調査をおこなった。東南アジアでは、タイにおいて、中新世化石類人猿に関する研究を進めた。

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 2009)ナカリピテクスと後期中新世の類人猿進化 (2009)
  • Author(s): 中務真人, 國松豊
  • Journal Title: 霊長類研究 24 Pages: 313-327
• [Journal Article] Systematic morphology and evolutionary anatomy of the autonomic cardiac nervous system in the lesser apes, gibbons (Hylobatidae) (2008)
  • Author(s): KAWASHIMA, Tomokazu, THORINGTON JR, Richard W., KUNIMATSU, Yutaka, WHATTON, James F
  • Journal Title: The Anatomical Record 291 Pages: 939-959
• [Journal Article] A new species of Bothriodontinae (2008)
  • Author(s): HANTA, Rattanaphorn, Benjavun RATANASTHIEN, Yutaka KUNIMATSU, Haruo SAEGUSA, Hideo NAKAYA, Shinji NAGAOKA, Pratueng JINTASAKUL
  • Journal Title: Merycopotamus thachangensis (Cetartiodactyla, Anthracotheriidae) from the Late Miocene of Nakhon Ratchasima, Northeastern Thailand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(4) Pages: 1182-1188
• [Journal Article] A new species of Bothriodontinae, Merycopotamus thachangensis (Cetartiodactyla, Anthracotheriidae) from the Late Miocene of Nakhon Ratchasima, northeastern Thailand (2008)
  • Author(s): Hanta, R., Ratanasthien, B., Kunimatu, Y., et al.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 Pages: 1182-1188
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Systematic morphology and evolutionary anatomy of the autonomic cardiac nervous system in the lesser apes, gibbons (Hylobatidae) (2008)
  • Author(s): Kawashima, T., Thorington, R. W., Kunimatsu, Y., Whatton, J. F.
  • Journal Title: The Anatomical Record 291 Pages: 939-959
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] A new Late Miocene great ape from Kenya and its implications for the origins of African great apes and humans (2007)
  • Author(s): KUNIMATSU, Yutaka, Masato Nakatsukasa, Yoshihiro Sawada, Tetsuya Sakai, Masayuki Hyodo, Hironobu Hyodo, Tetsumaru Itaya, Hideo Nakaya, Haruo Saegusa, Arnaud Mazurier, Mototaka Saneyoshi, Hiroshi Tsujikawa, Ayumi Yamamoto, and Emma Mbua
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 104(49) Pages: 19220-19225
• [Journal Article] A new Late Miocene great ape from Kenya and its implications for the origins of African great apes and (2007)
  • Author(s): Kunimatsu, Y., et. al.
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 104 Pages: 19220-19225
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] アフリカの環境変動とナカリ出土の類人猿化石 (2009)
  • Author(s): 國松豊
  • Organizer: ホミニゼーション研究会「ヒトの起源 : 共通祖先の形と暮らしを探る」
  • Place of Presentation: 京都大学霊長類研究所、犬山市
• [Presentation] 化石霊長類から見たヒトヘの進化 (2009)
  • Author(s): 國松豊
  • Organizer: 第114回日本解剖学会総会・全国学術集会
  • Place of Presentation: 岡山理科大学、岡山市
• [Presentation] Stable carbon and oxygen isotope ratios of fossil tooth enamel from the Nakali and the Samburu Hills (2008)
  • Author(s): Kevin T. Uno, Thure E. Cerling1, Hideo Nakaya, Masato Nakatsukasa, and Yutaka Kunimatsu
  • Organizer: Kenya : Capturing the C3-C4 transition in East African equid diet at ~9.7 Ma. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 68th Annual Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
• [Presentation] Late Miocene paleoenvironmental change of hominoid evolution in sub-Saharan Africa : Mesowear analysis of Hipparion (Equidae, Perissodactyla) cheek teeth from Kenya (2008)
  • Author(s): Nakaya, H., Fukuchi, A., Uno, K., Kunimatsu, Y., Nakatsukasa, M
  • Organizer: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 68^<th> Annual Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Cleveland, Ohio, USA. (Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 28, supp. No. 3, p 120A)
• [Presentation] Carnivores from the Pondaung (Myanmar) and Krabi (Thailand) faunas : Change of taxonomic diversity in the Middle to Late Eocene of Southeast Asia (2008)
  • Author(s): Egi, N., Tsubamoto, T., Nakaya, H., Kunimatsu, Y., Takai, M
  • Organizer: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 68^<th> Annual Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Cleveland, Ohio, USA(Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 28, supp. no. 3, p 74A)
• [Presentation] ケニヤ共和国ナカリ出土の旧世界ザル化石 (2008)
  • Author(s): 國松豊、中務真人、山本亜由美、清水大輔、仲谷英夫、酒井哲弥、沢田順弘
  • Organizer: アフリカ学会第45回学術大会
  • Place of Presentation: 龍谷大学、京都市
• [Presentation] ケニア、ナカリ出土のマイクロコロブス骨格 (2008)
  • Author(s): 中務真人, 國松豊, 仲谷英夫, 酒井哲弥, 沢田順弘
  • Organizer: 第24回日本霊長類学会大会
  • Place of Presentation: 明治学院大学、東京都
• [Presentation] ケニア、ナカリ地域における2007-2008年度の発掘成果 (2008)
  • Author(s): 中務真人, 國松豊, 情水大輔, 五十嵐健行, 仲谷英夫, 酒井哲弥, 沢開順弘
  • Organizer: 第62回日本人類学会大会
  • Place of Presentation: 愛知学院大歯学部、名古屋
• [Presentation] Stable carbon and oxygen isotope ratios of fossil tooth enamel from the Nakali and the Samburu Hills, Kenya (2008)
  • Author(s): Kevin T. Uno, Thure E. Cerlingl, Hideo Nakaya, Masato Nakatsukasa, Yutaka Kunimatsu
  • Organizer: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 68th Annual Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
• [Presentation] Late Miocene paleoenvironmental change of hominoid evolution in sub-Saharan Africa : Mesowear analysis of Hipparion (Equidae, Perissodactyla) cheek teeth from Kenya (2008)
  • Author(s): Nakaya, H., Fukuchi, A., Uno, K., Kunimatsu, Y., Nakatsukasa. M.
  • Organizer: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 68th Annual Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
• [Presentation] Carnivores from the Pondaung (Myanmar)and Krabi (Thailand)faunas : Change of taxonomic diversity in the Middle to Late Eocene of Southeast Asia (2008)
  • Author(s): Egi, N., Tsubamoto, T., Nakaya, H., Kunimatsu. Y., Takai, M.
  • Organizer: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 68th Annual Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
• [Presentation] タイの後期新生代哺乳類生層序と古環境 (2007)
  • Author(s): 仲谷英夫, 三枝春生, 国松豊, 田中里志, 菅沼悠介, 福地亮, 浜田毅, 長岡信治, B. Ratanasthien, P. Jhintaskul
  • Organizer: 日本地質学会西日本支部2006年度総会および第153回例会
  • Place of Presentation: 山口
• [Presentation] Morphology of Late Miocene hominoids from Nakali (2007)
  • Author(s): Yutaka Kunimatsu, Masato Nakatsukasa, Yoshihiro Sawada, Tetsuya Sakai, Hideo Nakaya
  • Organizer: central Kenya. Open Research Center of Okayama Unversity of Science : International Symposium on Material Science and History of Earth and Sister Planets
  • Place of Presentation: Open Research Center, Building 26, Okayama University of Science, Okayama, Japan
• [Presentation] (2007)ナカリ(ケニヤ)出土の新しい小型狭鼻猿化石 (2007)
  • Author(s): 國松豊、中務真人、仲谷英夫、辻川寛、山本亜由美、酒井哲弥、沢田順弘
  • Organizer: 日本アフリカ学会第44回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 長崎大学, 長崎市
• [Presentation] タイの新第三紀哺乳類生層序-東南アジアにおける類人猿進化の年代と環境 (2007)
  • Author(s): 仲谷英夫, 三枝春生, 國松豊, 田中里志, 菅沼悠介, 浜田毅, 福地亮, 長岡信治, B. Ratanasthien, P. Jintaskul
  • Organizer: 地球惑星科学関連学会(2007年合同大会)
  • Place of Presentation: 千葉
• [Presentation] ナカリ(ケニヤ)出土の新しい小型狭鼻猿化石 (2007)
  • Author(s): 國松豊, ほか
  • Organizer: 日本アフリカ学会第44回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 長崎
• [Presentation] 後期中新世の類人猿進化と人類の起源 (2006)
  • Author(s): 國松豊
  • Organizer: 日本人類学会第60回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 高知工科大学, 香美市
  • Year and Date: 2006-11-03
• [Presentation] 後期中新世の哺乳類動物相の変遷と交流 (2006)
  • Author(s): 仲谷英夫、 辻川 寛、 三枝春生、 國松 豊、 中務真人
  • Organizer: 日本人類学会第60回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 高知工科大学, 香美市
• [Presentation] 化石霊長類から見たヒトへの進化
  • Author(s): 國松豊
  • Organizer: 第114回日本解剖学会総会・全国学術
• [Book] 霊長類進化の科学(アフリカ類人猿の進化. 霊長類研究所・編) (2007)
  • Author(s): 國松豊
  • Publisher: 京都大学出版会(京都)