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An early Oligocene fossil demonstrates treeshrews are slowly evolving “living fossils”

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 represen...

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Autores principales: Li, Qiang, Ni, Xijun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4725336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26766238
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep18627