Discovery of a primate more than 11 million years old

Catalan researchers have discovered in the rubbish dump of Can Mata in the Vallčs-Penedčs basin (Catalonia) a new species of Pliopithecus primate, considered an extinct family of primitive Catarrhini primates (or "Old World monkeys"). The fragments of jaw and molars found in this large site demonstrate that Pliopithecus canmatensis belongs to this group, which includes the first Catarrhini that dispersed from Africa to Eurasia.

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