A new specimen and dental microwear in Oreopithecus bambolii.
The authors describe a new specimen of Oreopithecus bambolii, a catarrhine primate from late Miocene sites of Tuscany and Sardinia (Italy). Microwears of 4 specimens of Oreopithecus bambolii have been analysed on standard surfaces of facet 9 to determine the diet. The microwear pattern confirms the hypothesis already put forward on the basis of its dental morphology that Oreopithecus bambolii had a leaf-based diet.
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Museo di Storia Naturale del Mediterraneo della Provincia di Livorno, via Roma 234, 57127 Livorno, Italy. emiliano21@interfree.it
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D000818:Animals; D002520:Cercopithecidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D004032:Diet; D005580:Fossils; D010945:Plants, Edible; D014072:Tooth Abrasion