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Plesiadapis Primate-Like Mammal Tooth #3

$125.00

FOSSIL MAMMAL COLLECTION

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Description

  • Plesiadapis tricuspidens
  • Paleocene Age
  • Cernay-Les-Reims, France
  • Specimen measures approx. 5/32″ wide and will come in the 1.25″ Gem Jar as Shown

Plesiadapis is one of the oldest known primate-like mammal genera which existed about 55–58 million years ago in North America and Europe. Plesiadapis means “near-Adapis”, which is a reference to the adapiform primate of the Eocene period, Adapis. Plesiadapis tricuspidens, the type specimen, is named after the three cusps present on its upper incisors.