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oldest known primate existed during the last days of the dinosaurs

Started by sauroid, March 01, 2021, 11:45:04 AM

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March 01, 2021, 11:45:04 AM
"you know you have a lot of prehistoric figures if you have at least twenty items per page of the prehistoric/dinosaur section on ebay." - anon.

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March 01, 2021, 12:38:01 PM
Cool! Open-access paper is here.


Just to clarify, the researchers did not find Cretaceous primate fossils. They found two species of the plesiadapiform Purgatorius in extremely early Paleocene strata (105,000 to 139,000 years post-KT) and reason that the genus must have been present in the Cretaceous.

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