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

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We report the discovery of a fauna of primates from Eocene (˜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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  1. Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, USA

    K. Christopher Beard & Mary R. Dawson

  2. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Academia Sinica, Beijing, 100044, People's Republic of China

    Tao Qi, Banyue Wang & Chuankuei Li

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Beard, K., Qi, T., Dawson, M. et al. A diverse new primate fauna from middle Eocene fissure-fillings in southeastern China. Nature 368, 604–609 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/368604a0

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