Episode 14: A tiny fossil primate tooth from South America
Channel: Benjamin Burger
Date: 2015-02-06

This episode of Bestiapilosus was inspired by this recent paper published in Nature on that tiny fossil tooth from Peru:

Bond, M. Tejedor, MF., Campbell, KE., Chornogubsky, L. Novo, N. Goin, F. 2015. Eocene primates of South America and the African origins of New World monkeys. Nature. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14120.html

Here are some other articles and books about early Primates:

Fleage, J.G. 2013. Primate Adaptation and Evolution. 3rd Edition. Academic Press.http://www.amazon.com/Primate-Adaptation-Evolution-Third-Edition/dp/0123786320

- This book goes in much more detail than I provided in this book on the subject.

Burger, B. 2011. Skull of the Eocene primate Omomys carteri from western North America. Paleontological Contributions, 2. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6360

Simons, E.L. and Rasmussen, DT. 1996. Catopithecus browni, an Early Tertiary Catarrhine. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 100:261-292. 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/14432102_Skull_of_Catopithecus_browni_an_early_tertiary_catarrhine
 Seiffert et al. 2005. Basal Anthropoids from Egypt and the Antiquity of Africa's Higher Primate Radiation. Science 310(5746)300-304. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3842657

Takai et al. 2000. New fossil materials of the Earliest New World Monkey, Branisella boliviana, and the Problem of Platyrrhine Origins. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 111:263-281. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12673454_New_fossil_materials_of_the_earliest_new_world_monkey_Branisella_boliviana_and_the_problem_of_platyrrhine_origins

Horovitz, I. 1999. A phylogenetic study of living and fossil Platyrrhines. American Museum Novitates. 3269, p. 40.
http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/handle/2246/3049/N3269.pdf?sequence=1

Some additional images of fossil primates comes from my dissertation research on fossil mammals from Colorado, U.S.A. You can purchase my dissertation as a book here: 
http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/benjamin-burger/mammalian-faunal-change-across-the-paleocene-eocene-boundary-in-the-piceance-creek-basin-western-colorado/hardcover/product-20016363.html

Images of the position of the continents, comes from Ron Blakey’s website: https://www2.nau.edu/rcb7/