Tiny teeth found in Colorado deepen the debate over primate origins

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate ...
ZME Science

The Tiny, Shrew-Like Primate Ancestor That Survived the Dinosaur Apocalypse Lived in Colorado 66 Million Years Ago

Sixty-six million years ago, a massive asteroid smashed into Earth. Life has undergone at least five mass extinctions in the ...

These Tiny Teeth Could Change What We Know About Human Origins

Tiny fossil teeth from Colorado are revealing new clues about the very first relatives of primates, including humans.
Nature

Paleocene-Eocene Evolution of Plesiadapiforms and Early Primates

The evolutionary journey from primitive plesiadapiforms to early primates during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs represents a critical chapter in mammalian history. Fossil records from these periods ...
Phys.org

Tiny Purgatorius fossils in Denver Basin hint at early primate spread southward

New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a more southern region of North America than ever before, and the breakthrough ...
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The evolution of the primate hand : anatomical, developmental, functional, and paleontological evidence / Tracy L. Kivell, Pierre Lemelin, Brian G. Richmond, Daniel Schmitt ...

1. Introduction / Tracy L. Kivell, Pierre Lemelin, Brian G. Richmond, and Daniel Schmitt -- 2. On primitiveness, prehensility, and opposability of the primate hand : the contributions of Frederic Wood ...
Phys.org

Chew on this: Study of ancient teeth bites theory of early primate disappearance

An illustration of Carpolestes simpsoni, a stem primate species that lived in Wyoming at the endof the Paleocene epoch. Credit: Doug M. Boyer/Duke University Departmentof Evolutionary Anthropology ...