Related Experiment Video
Updated: Oct 23, 2026

Using Robotic Systems to Process and Embed Colonic Murine Samples for Histological Analyses
Published on: January 7, 2019
Late turolian Mesopithecus (mammalia, primates, Colobinae) from Italy
1Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra and Museo di Geologia e Paleontologia, Università di Firenze, via G. La Pira 4, Firenze, 50121, Italy. lrook@geo.unifi.it
Abstract:
This paper reports on new finds and re-discovered old collections of the latest Miocene colobine Mesopithecus from Italian localities. New finds are reported from the Baccinello V3 faunal assemblage and from the Monticino gypsum quarry (Brisighella) and newly rediscovered teeth from the Casino basin are herein described. The latter two samples are attributed to the species Mesopithecus pentelicus, while the allocation of the Baccinello V3 sample is unclear and for the moment is attributed to Mesopithecus sp. indet. A fourth Italian locality that yielded Mesopithecus remains is Gravitelli. Unfortunately the latter specimens are lost, and from the literature it is impossible to furnish an accurate specific attribution. The taxonomic allocation of latest Miocene Mesopithecus species is briefly discussed.
Related Concept Videos
The Fossil Record
Phylogeny
Phylogenetic Trees
Phylogenetic Trees
Eukaryotic Evolution
Contrary to the endosymbiont theory, the eukaryote-first hypothesis proposes that the simpler prokaryotic and...
Microbiota of the Large Intestine

