Platyrrhine Fossils First Appear in the South American Fossil Record

question 14

Essay

Platyrrhine fossils first appear in the South American fossil record during the late Oligocene epoch.Since they are not found in earlier fossil-bearing sediments, and South America at that time was essentially an island continent, how do scientists think they got there?

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