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Fossils of 6.4-Million-Year-Old Monkey Found in China | Paleontology – Sci-News.com
Paleontologists have found the remains of Mesopithecus pentelicus — an extinct species of Old World monkey that lived in Europe and Asia between 7 and 5 millio…
Paleontologists have found the remains of Mesopithecus pentelicus — an extinct species of Old World monkey that lived in Europe and Asia between 7 and 5 million years ago — in the Shuitangba lignite mine in northeastern Yunnan Province, China. The discovery indicates that this monkey species existed in Asia at the same time as apes, and is probably the ancestor of some of the modern monkeys in the area.
Life reconstruction of Mesopithecus pentelicus. Image credit: Mauricio Antón.
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