New Fossil Platyrrhines from Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
- 14 February 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Brill in Folia Primatologica
- Vol. 48 (1-2), 65-77
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000156286
Abstract
New platyrrhine fossils have been recovered from early Miocene deposits near the Pinturas River in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. Soriacebus ameghinorum is a saki-sized monkey with a deep V-shaped mandible, large procumbent incisors and small marmoset-like cheek teeth. Several other primate taxa are represented by dental, cranial, and post-cranial remains from the same deposits. These fossils document the presence of a phyletically and adaptively diverse fauna of primates in southernmost Argentina during the early Miocene.Keywords
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