Description
- Plesiadapis tricuspidens
- Paleocene Age
- Cernay-Les-Reims, France
- Specimen measures approx. 1/4″ 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.
