Southernmost Purgatorius Fossils Unearthed in Colorado, Extending the Range of Earth's Earliest Known Primate Relative by 800 Kilometers
Paleontologists have recovered tiny fossilized teeth of Purgatorius from Colorado's Denver Basin, marking the southernmost occurrence ever documented and suggesting that archaic primates dispersed rapidly across western North America within hundreds of thousands of years of the dinosaur extinction.
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