Small Fossil Primate works life inward Texas

Scale bar equals ii mm. Photo from Kirk & Williams (2011).

Lingual persuasion (side that touches the tongue) of Mescalerolemur horneri partial mandible.

 

Sure they were equally pocket-size equally lemurs, exactly this was intelligence to us that whatever type of primate was documented inwards North America. The other interesting hollo for of this article is the house where the fossils were found, "Devils Graveyard". Geographical nomenclature twith titles similar devils, demon, etc are sometimes considered hotspots past times bigfooters.

Do yous know that fossil primates in ane lawsuit roam North America? I didn’t know either together with then this uncovering was a stupor together with a “d’oh” 2nd at the same time.

Anywho … Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fossil primate from the Eocene Epoch was discovered inwards Devil’s Graveyard badlands of West Texas past times Anthropologists Christopher Kirk together with Blythe Williams. Named Mescalerolemur horneri, this novel fossil primate lived close 43 ane M m years agone is a fellow member of the extinct group, adapiforms, that are constitute all over the Northern Hemisphere. Mescalerolemur looked similar a modern-day greater dwarf lemur together with weighs close 370 grams.

Interestingly enough, Mescalerolemur are to a greater extent than closely related to Eurasian together with African adapiforms than those from North America. Darwinius masillae, famously known equally Aunt Ida, was a Eurasian adapiform. Another interesting fact to hollo for out is that Mescalerolemur had unfused mandibular symphysis, similar to those of Strepsirrhines (lemurs, lorises together with galagos). The authors posit that this is definitive show that adapiforms are to a greater extent than similar to Strepsirrhines than Haplorrhines (humans are Haplorrhines). Kirk &Williams (2011) published their findings on Journal of Evolution: New adapiform primate of Old World affinities from the Devil’s Graveyard Formation of Texas (PDF). You tin laissez passer on notice likewise read to a greater extent than close the uncovering at EurekAlert: Anthropologist discovers novel fossil primate species inwards West Texas.

SRC: Primatology.net

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