Description

Late Eocene (Ludian)

Phosphorites de Quercy

Perrier, Quercy, France

Very rare 5mm primate jaw section with 4 excellent teeth

Mammal, Primate.

Primates appeared soon after the K/T mass extinction.  They would have looked more like rodents at the time and were rather common in the jungles of North America and Europe across the Paleocene, diversifying into more forms in the Early Eocene.

Pseudoloris lived at a time when primates were becoming uncommon in North America and Europe as tropical forests were well on their way to being replaced by the open woodlands of cooler, drier climates.  It was one of the last undisputed omomyid primates (Family Omomyidae) which may have been ancestral to modern tarsiers of southeast Asia.