"Crown primates appeared simultaneously in North America, Europe and Asia 56 million years ago," Bloch said. "I don't think this specimen tells us much about where primates themselves evolved," he added.
The fossil was dug up from an old lake bed in central China's Hubei Province, close to where the Yangtze River now flows.
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