A diverse new primate fauna from middle Eocene fissure-fillings in southeastern China.
We report the discovery of a fauna of primates from Eocene (approximately 45 Myr) deposits in China having a diversity greater than in European and North American localities of similar antiquity. From the many forms that will illuminate questions of primate phylogeny comes evidence for a basal radiation of primitive simians.
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Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213.
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Dawson
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Wang
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Li
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D000818:Animals; D002681:China; D005580:Fossils; D010161:Paleodontology; D010802:Phylogeny; D011323:Primates / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification