title: A diverse new primate fauna from middle Eocene fissure-fillings in southeastern China.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213.
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Beard
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Dawson
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002681:China; D005580:Fossils; D010161:Paleodontology; D010802:Phylogeny; D011323:Primates / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification