New Eocene primate from Myanmar shares dental characters with African Eocene crown anthropoids
Recent fossil findings have suggested that anthropoid primates originated in Asia before dispersing into Africa. Here, Jaeger and colleagues describe a new fossil Asian primate, Aseanpithecus myanmarensis, that they interpret as a closer relative of African crown anthropoids.
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2019-08-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11295-6 |