The Earliest Primates
- 5 November 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 150 (3697) , 743-745
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.150.3697.743
Abstract
The known range of the Primates is extended down from the middle Paleocene to the early Paleocene and late Cretaceous by a new genus and two new species from Montana, Purgatorius unio and P. ceratops. These species approach condylarths and leptictid and erinaceoid insectivores in structure. Purgatorius is referred to a new subfamily, Purgatoriinae, of the Paromomyidae, but is probably not the stem primate. The fauna of Purgatory Hill indicates a late early Paleocene age.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Cretaceous Mammals from MontanaScience, 1965
- The mammalian faunas of the Paleocene of central Utah, with notes on the geologyProceedings of the United States National Museum, 1941