Getting Its Feet on the Ground: Elucidating Paralouatta’s Semi-Terrestriality Using the Virtual Morpho-Functional Toolbox

Currently, there are no extant platyrrhine primates living in the main Caribbean islands. However, the fossil record of this island region has provided spectacular findings of different platyrrhines that were part of a diverse radiation showing exceptionally unusual morphologies. Among these, the Cuban genus Paralouatta represents some of the most enigmatic primates ever discovered in the Greater Antilles. Some researchers have argued that...