Dolichocebus
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Extinct genus of monkeys
Dolichocebus | |
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Skull cast of a specimen collected in Chubut province, Patagonia, Argentina. At the AMNH. | |
Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Cebidae |
Subfamily: | Cebinae |
Genus: | †Dolichocebus Bordas, 1942 |
Species: | †D. gaimanensis
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Binomial name | |
†Dolichocebus gaimanensis Kraglievich, 1951
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Dolichocebus is an extinct New World monkey genus that lived in Argentine Patagonia (Sarmiento Formation) from about 21 to 17.5 million years ago during the Early Miocene (Colhuehuapian in the SALMA classification).[1] [2] The type species is D. gaimanensis.
References
[edit ]- ^ Dolichocebus at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Fleagle, J.G. and R.F. Kay (1989). "The dental morphology of Dolichocebus gaimanensis, a fossil monkey from Argentina". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 78 (2): 221. doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330780206.
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