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Almost 50 years after its discovery, a cranium from the early Miocene of Rusinga Island, Kenya, is designated the type specimen for a new lorisid species in the genusMioeuoticus. This new species differs fromMioeuoticus bishopi in a number of dental attributes. Several cranial features place this species in Lorisidae, where it may represent the sister group to living lorises.
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Phillips, E.M., Walker, A. A new species of fossil lorisid from the miocene of east africa. Primates 41, 367–372 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02557647
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