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SUBMITTER: Fuss J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5439669 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fuss Jochen J Spassov Nikolai N Begun David R DR Böhme Madelaine M
PloS one 20170522 5
The split of our own clade from the Panini is undocumented in the fossil record. To fill this gap we investigated the dentognathic morphology of Graecopithecus freybergi from Pyrgos Vassilissis (Greece) and cf. Graecopithecus sp. from Azmaka (Bulgaria), using new μCT and 3D reconstructions of the two known specimens. Pyrgos Vassilissis and Azmaka are currently dated to the early Messinian at 7.175 Ma and 7.24 Ma. Mainly based on its external preservation and the previously vague dating, Graecopi ...[more]