An early Oligocene fossil demonstrates treeshrews are slowly evolving “living fossils”
An early Oligocene fossil demonstrates treeshrews are slowly evolving “living fossils”
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London: Nature Publishing Group UK
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Treeshrews are widely considered a “living model” of an ancestral primate and have long been called “living fossils”. Actual fossils of treeshrews, however, are extremely rare. We report a new fossil species of
Ptilocercus
treeshrew recovered from the early Oligocene (~34 Ma) of China that represents the oldest definitive fossil record of the...
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An early Oligocene fossil demonstrates treeshrews are slowly evolving “living fossils”
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4725336
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4725336
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2045-2322
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2045-2322
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10.1038/srep18627
