A forty-seven-million-year-old primate Darwinius masillae from the middle Eocene of Messel in Germany is worthy of attention
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Museum of Paleontology and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA b Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt, Germany Naturhistorisches Museum, Augustinergasse 2, CH-4001 Basel, Switzerland Naturhistorisk Museum, Universitetet i Oslo, Postboks 1172, Blindern, N-0318 Oslo, Norway Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of Messel in Germany: Morphology and Paleobiology
BACKGROUND The best European locality for complete Eocene mammal skeletons is Grube Messel, near Darmstadt, Germany. Although the site was surrounded by a para-tropical rain forest in the Eocene, primates are remarkably rare there, and only eight fragmentary specimens were known until now. Messel has now yielded a full primate skeleton. The specimen has an unusual history: it was privately coll...
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