Figure S3

Ecological role and species duration (A) Temporal duration of mutualistic and antagonistic fossil primates, quantified as the stratigraphic range in Ma. (B) Temporal duration of extinct primate genera belonging to different diet. As observed in the figure, primates belonging to different diet categories had different temporal duration. However, this difference was exclusively due to a longer duration of frugivorous primates consuming fleshy fruits and putatively behaving as seed dispersers and to a shorter duration of frugivorous primates consuming mostly seeds and hard fruits and behaving as antagonistics. When comparing only within frugivores, the stratigraphic range of antagonistic primates was significantly smaller than that of mutualistic ones. In contrast, the temporal duration of faunivorous, nectarivorous/gumnivorous and folivorous primates was statistically identical. The SEs of the reported averages are shown as error bars.