A brunette girl, brachicephalic and rather platyrrhine. From Wordnik.com. [Caesar or Nothing] Reference
The platyrrhine and catarrhine monkeys have their primitive ancestor among extinct forms of the Lemuridae. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference
Summarily of mallow arthrography this coadjutor is sequentially a great karabiner clotheshorse for keen platyrrhine percina. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
The first fossil platyrrhine, Branisella boliviana was found during the late Oligocene, so it is possible that platyrrhines first came to South America during the middle Oligocene (Fleagle, 1988). From Wordnik.com. [1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)] Reference
But this agreeable sight was spoiled at once by the quite horrible words Nycticebidoe, platyrrhine, catarrhine, from which I raised my eyes to see him coming at me with two pamphlets, and scolding as he came. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Baltimore] Reference
The "evidence" showing an African origin of the platyrrhine monkeys of South America is, first, the ocean currents of that time would have facilitated a crossing from Africa to South America and not from North America (Tarling, 1982; cited in Fleagle, 1988). From Wordnik.com. [1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)] Reference
This, he argued, was a more plausible account of the origins of platyrrhine monkeys in South America (disjunct from their nearest neighbors in Africa), than the hypothesis that they crossed the ocean on hurricane-driven mats of vegetation when the two continents were closer than they are today. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Exactly the same thing has just happened with another new monkey: a Brazilian platyrrhine named the Blond capuchin Cebus quierozi Mendes Pontes & Malta, 2006 (again, the species’ authorship doesn’t match the authorship of the paper. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
"I am not partial to the platyrrhine races.". From Wordnik.com. [Caesar or Nothing] Reference
He gave it a name, not as bad as platyrrhine, but. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Baltimore] Reference
Prognathous, megadont, platyrrhine. ". From Wordnik.com. [Lady Baltimore] Reference
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