Tremacebus
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| Tremacebus | |
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| Skull of Tremacebus harringtoni | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | Aotidae |
| Genus: | †Tremacebus Hershkovitz, 1974 |
| Species: | †T. harringtoni
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| †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.
Description
[edit]Tremacebus was about 1 metre (3.3 ft) in length, and would have resembled a modern night monkey, to which it is thought to have been related.[1][2] However, its eyes appear to have been smaller than the modern species. In addition, 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]
References
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- ^ Palmer, D., ed. (1999). The Marshall Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals. London: Marshall Editions. p. 289. ISBN 1-84028-152-9.
- ^ a b Silvestro, Daniele; Tejedor, Marcelo F; Serrano-Serrano, Martha L; Loiseau, Oriane; Rossier, Victor; Rolland, Jonathan; Zizka, Alexander; Höhna, Sebastian; Antonelli, Alexandre; Salamin, Nicolas (2019-01-01). "Early Arrival and Climatically-Linked Geographic Expansion of New World Monkeys from Tiny African Ancestors". Systematic Biology. 68 (1): 78–92. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syy046. ISSN 1063-5157. PMC 6292484. PMID 29931325.
- ^ Kay, Richard (2002). "Tremacebus harringtoni, Fossil Primate". Digimorph. UT Austin. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
- ^ Tremacebus at Fossilworks.org
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