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This little black skeleton is a Captorhinus, a primate from the Carbonic Age, the great swamp ages.

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This is one of the very first primates, before it was a type of amphibian animal.

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The reason it's called Captorhinus is that they were sometimes captured in these hollow wood piles,

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but then they were covered with mud and fossilized.

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The name Captorhinus means "the one who is captured", and this is one of my absolute favorite objects in the geological exhibitions.