Question

A press release on the findings from a dig in the bighorn basin of wyoming report the finding of a series of extinct primate fossils that may be a link between plesiadapiforms and later primates due to an opposable big toe. the find is likely:

Answer 1

The press release on the findings from a dig in the bighorn basin of wyoming is about the primate Cantius trigonodus. It had a grasping big toe, The term euprimate, meaning true primate applies to all living and extinct primates with the grasping toe, unlike the outdated primates which had claws.