Episode 14: A tiny fossil primate tooth from South America

This episode of Bestiapilosus was inspired by this recent paper published in Nature on that tiny fossil tooth from Peru:

Here are some other articles and books about early Primates:

- This book goes in much more detail than I provided in this book on the subject.

Simons, E.L. and Rasmussen, DT. 1996. Catopithecus browni, an Early Tertiary Catarrhine. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 100:261-292.

Horovitz, I. 1999. A phylogenetic study of living and fossil Platyrrhines. American Museum Novitates. 3269, p. 40.

Some additional images of fossil primates comes from my dissertation research on fossil mammals from Colorado, U.S.A. You can purchase my dissertation as a book here:

[lethargogpeterson]

I'm impressed that scientists can tell it's a primate just from the tooth. Thank you for the video.

[DisKeda]

interesting video, but the way you talk is a bit weird though.