Oldest Known Old World Monkey Fossils Reportedly Found (Tugen Hills, Kenya)

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Old World Monkey Fossils Called Oldest Found, May Shed

Light On Animals' Origins, Huffington Post, March 19, 2013.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/19/old-world-monkey-fossils-primates_n_2902420.html

Tugen Hills - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tugen_Hills

The paper is:

Rossie, J. B., C. C. Gilbert, and A. Hill, 2013, Early cercopithecid

monkeys from the Tugen Hills, Kenya PNAS 2013 ; published

ahead of print March 18, 2013, doi:10.1073/pnas.1213691110

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/03/13/1213691110.abstract

A related article about other primate fossils is:

Dan Gebo: Tiny fossils, big impact, NIU Today, March 25, 2013

http://www.niutoday.info/2013/03/25/dan-gebo-tiny-fossils-big-impact/

Yours,

Paul H.