According to this LiveScience.com article, 55-million-year-old fossils of a new species of minuscule primates discovered in Mississippi are now believed to have been among the oldest-known primates to appear in North America.
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Tags: debate, animals, new species, fossils, primates, mini-monkeys, new primate species, Teilhardina magnoliana, Philip Gingerich, Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, K. Christopher Beard, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
