Dolichocebus
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Skull cast of a specimen collected in Chubut province, Patagonia, Argentina. At the AMNH. | |
Scientific 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
- ^ Dolichocebus Archived 2022-10-15 at the Wayback Machine 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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- Capuchin monkeys
- Prehistoric monkeys
- Prehistoric primate genera
- Miocene primates of South America
- Colhuehuapian
- Neogene Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Fossil taxa described in 1942
- Golfo San Jorge Basin
- Sarmiento Formation
- Prehistoric primate stubs
- New World monkey stubs