A Press Release on the Findings from a Dig in the Bighorn

question 23

Multiple Choice

A press release on the findings from a dig in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming reports the finding of a series of extinct primate fossils that may be a link between plesiadapiforms and later primates due to an opposable big toe.The find is likely

• A)Notharctus.
• B)Carpolestes.
• C)Eosimias.
• D)Apidium.

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