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DESCRIBING a typical Pleistocene fauna (with Ailuropoda and Tapirus augustus) from Koloshan, near Chungking, Szechuan, Central China, Young and Liu1 have recently figured an isolated lower bilophodont tooth, which according to these authors should indicate a new genus of the Cercopithecidae. As fossil Primates are of special interest to everybody concerned with the study of human evolution, I wish to comment on this matter.
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Young and Liu, Bull. Geol. Soc. of China, 30, p. 52, Fig. 5 (1951).
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VON KOENIGSWALD, G. Status of Szechuanopithecus from the Pleistocene of China. Nature 173, 643–644 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173643b0
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