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| Chilecebus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | Atelidae |
| Genus: | †Chilecebus |
| Species: | †C. carrascoensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Chilecebus carrascoensis Flynn, Wyss, Charrier and Swisher, 1995[1] | |
Chilecebus is an extinct genus of New World monkeys that lived in what is now Chile (Abanico Formation) during the Early Miocene some 20 million years ago. The type species is C. carrascoensis.[2] It had a body mass of about 1,000 g (35 oz).[3]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Flynn, J.; et al. (16 February 1995). "An Early Miocene anthropoid skull from the Chilean Andes". Nature. 373 (6515): 603–607. Bibcode:1995Natur.373..603F. doi:10.1038/373603a0. PMID 7854415. S2CID 1537837.
- ↑ Chilecebus at Fossilworks.org
- ↑ Silvestro, Daniele; Tejedor, Marcelo F.; Serrano-Serrano, Martha L.; Loiseau, Oriane; Rossier, Victor; Rolland, Jonathan; Zizka, Alexander; Höhna, Sebastian; Antonelli, Alexandre; Salamin, Nicolas (2019), "Early Arrival and Climatically-Linked Geographic Expansion of New World Monkeys from Tiny African Ancestors", Systematic Biology, 68: 78–92, bioRxiv 10.1101/178111, doi:10.1093/sysbio/syy046, PMC 6292484
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