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Tremacebus | |
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Skull of Tremacebus harringtoni | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Aotidae |
Genus: | †
Tremacebus Hershkovitz, 1974 |
Species: | †T. harringtoni
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Binomial name | |
†Tremacebus harringtoni (
Rusconi, 1933)
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Tremacebus is an extinct genus of New World monkeys from the Early Miocene ( Colhuehuapian in the SALMA classification). The type species is T. harringtoni.
Tremacebus was about 1 metre (3.3 ft) in length, and would have resembled a modern night monkey, to which it may have been related, [1] though possibly a stem aotid. [2] However, its eyes appear to have been smaller than the modern species, CT scans of the cranium suggest a relatively small olfactory bulb and poor sense of smell, compared with night monkeys. These features suggest that it may not have been nocturnal. [3] It had an estimated body mass of 1.8 kg (4.0 lb). [2]
Only a few fossils have been found, including a skull from the Sarmiento Formation, Patagonia. [4]
You can help expand this article with text translated from
the corresponding article in German. (February 2020) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
Tremacebus | |
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Skull of Tremacebus harringtoni | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Aotidae |
Genus: | †
Tremacebus Hershkovitz, 1974 |
Species: | †T. harringtoni
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Binomial name | |
†Tremacebus harringtoni (
Rusconi, 1933)
|
Tremacebus is an extinct genus of New World monkeys from the Early Miocene ( Colhuehuapian in the SALMA classification). The type species is T. harringtoni.
Tremacebus was about 1 metre (3.3 ft) in length, and would have resembled a modern night monkey, to which it may have been related, [1] though possibly a stem aotid. [2] However, its eyes appear to have been smaller than the modern species, CT scans of the cranium suggest a relatively small olfactory bulb and poor sense of smell, compared with night monkeys. These features suggest that it may not have been nocturnal. [3] It had an estimated body mass of 1.8 kg (4.0 lb). [2]
Only a few fossils have been found, including a skull from the Sarmiento Formation, Patagonia. [4]