Fossil Skeleton Confirms Earliest Primates were Tree Dwellers
Image 1: Taylor & Ryan Williamson on dig in San Juan Basin. Photo: Thomas Williamson
A new analysis of this 62-million-year-old partial skeleton of Torrejonia, a small mammal from an extinct group of primates called plesiadapiforms, had skeletal features adapted for living in trees.
The skeleton was Torrejon Fossil Fauna Area, a remote area in northwestern New Mexico, by Thomas Williamson, curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science.
