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The team analyzed fossilized teeth found in the Hell Creek area of northeastern Montana.

Newly-described early primate species Purgatorius mckeeveri. Purgatorius mckeeveri quickly set themselves apart from their competition by specializing on a omnivorous diet including fruit found up in the trees.

analyzed several fossils of Purgatorius, the oldest genus in a group of the earliest-known primates called plesiadapiforms.