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Fossil Monkeys from the Miocene of Napak, North-East Uganda

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The Napak specimens, a molar tooth and a frontal bone, from early Miocene deposits, are the earliest known well preserved fossil cercopithecoids. The discoveries suggest that the subdivision of the Cercopithecoidea into two subfamilies, the Colobinae and the Cercopithecinae, took place at least 19 million years ago.

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  1. Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

    DAVID PILBEAM

  2. Department of Anatomy, Makerere University College, Kampala, Uganda

    ALAN WALKER

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PILBEAM, D., WALKER, A. Fossil Monkeys from the Miocene of Napak, North-East Uganda. Nature 220, 657–660 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/220657a0

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