Purgatorius

Japanese: Purgatorius
Purgatorius

… The oldest known primate fossil, a single tooth, was discovered in the late Cretaceous in Montana, USA, along with six other species of late dinosaurs (1965). The fossil, called Purgatorius , has a low, wide talonid, which fits with the procession of the upper molar, and is designed to crush food rather than cut it. This feature is quite common in later prosimian fossils, and it is included in the primate category rather than insectivorous. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Purgatorius" is listed below.

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Japanese:

… 最古の霊長類化石と思われるものが,歯だけだが,アメリカのモンタナ州の白亜紀終り頃の地層から6種の末期の恐竜化石とともに発見された(1965)。プルガトリウスPurgatoriusとよばれる化石で,下顎大臼歯の後部(タロニド)は低く幅広くなっていて,上顎大臼歯の突起とかみ合わせて,食物を切断するよりも圧しつぶす構造になっている。この特徴は,その後の原猿類化石ではごくふつうのもので,食虫類的というよりも霊長類のカテゴリーに含まれるものである。…

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