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https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2021/02/335798/discovery-of-2-5-million-year-old-macaque-fossil-in-morocco/ The macaques, commonly known as the Barbary Ape, though they are monkeys, still live in Morocco's cedar forests and can also be found in Gibraltar, the only monkeys in Europe, allegedly taken there by the Moors during their invasion of Spain in the eighth century. Indeed the name Gibraltar derives from 'Jebel Tariq' or 'Tariq's Mountain' where the Moroccan fleet first put ashore in 711. Azrou, Morocco : Jebel Tariq :
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Hello, I recently found this small tooth (just under 1cm long). At first, I thought it might just be a weird crocodile tooth, since those are common here in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, but upon further inspection, I saw that the tooth was hollow, unlike crocodile's teeth. Also, it lacked the vertical stripes. I am not sure what this could be, it has a small hooked section at the very tip, and inside of the curve there seems to be signs of wear. I hope it could be a monkey tooth, as they are exceptionally rare (only 2 monkey teeth have been found in all of Arabia), but it could well be some other animal.
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Tiny Tooth of 15 Million Year Old New World Monkey Found in Amazon Basin
Scylla posted a topic in Fossil News
Tiny creature almost as small as pygmy Marmoset https://m.phys.org/news/2019-07-world-smallest-fossil-monkey-amazon.html -
The tag on the box that I picked this out of (silver pick) identified it as, you guessed it, petrified monkeypuzzle wood with shipworm borings. The ID seems right but it's such a beautiful piece I wondered if anyone has any further thoughts.