A diverse new primate fauna from middle Eocene fissure-fillings in southeastern China.

Beard, K C; Qi, T; Dawson, M R; Wang, B; Li, C · Nature · 1994

basic_science · Level V

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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.

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