Heterohyus Temporal range: early to late
Eocene
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Heterohyus fossil from Messel Pit, at the Naturkundemuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | † Apatotheria |
Family: | † Apatemyidae |
Genus: | †
Heterohyus Gervais, 1848 |
Type species | |
†Heterohyus nanus |
Heterohyus is an extinct genus of
apatemyid from the early to late
Eocene. A small, tree-dwelling creature with elongated fore- and middle fingers, in these regards it somewhat resembled a modern-day
aye-aye.
Three skeletons have been found at the early Eocene site at
Messel Pit, Germany
[1]
Media related to
Heterohyus at Wikimedia Commons
Heterohyus Temporal range: early to late
Eocene
| |
---|---|
![]() | |
Heterohyus fossil from Messel Pit, at the Naturkundemuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
Scientific classification
![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | † Apatotheria |
Family: | † Apatemyidae |
Genus: | †
Heterohyus Gervais, 1848 |
Type species | |
†Heterohyus nanus |
Heterohyus is an extinct genus of
apatemyid from the early to late
Eocene. A small, tree-dwelling creature with elongated fore- and middle fingers, in these regards it somewhat resembled a modern-day
aye-aye.
Three skeletons have been found at the early Eocene site at
Messel Pit, Germany
[1]
Media related to
Heterohyus at Wikimedia Commons