Pronycticebus
| Pronycticebus Temporal range: Early–Middle Eocene
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
| Family: | †Notharctidae |
| Subfamily: | †Cercamoniinae |
| Genus: | †Pronycticebus G. Grandidier, 1904 |
| Type species | |
| †Pronycticebus gaudryi G. Grandidier, 1904
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Pronycticebus was a genus of adapiform primates that lived during the early to middle Eocene. It is represented by Pronycticebus gaudryi, from the Quercy Phosphorites Formation of France.[1] A second species, P. neglectus,[2] was moved to its own genus Godinotia in 2000.[3]
References
- ^ Gebo 2002, pp. 28–29.
- ^ Thalmann, Urs; Haubold, Hartmut; Martin, Robert Denis (1989). "Pronycticebus neglectus - an almost complete Adapid primate specimen from the Geiseltal (GDR)". Palaeovertebrata. 19 (3): 115–130.
- ^ Franzen, Jens Lorenz (2000). "Der sechste Messel-Primate (Mammalia, Primates, Notharctidae, Cercamoniinae)". Senckenbergiana Lethaea (in German). 80 (1): 289–303. doi:10.1007/BF03043673. ISSN 0037-2110.
- Conroy, G.C. 1990. Primate Evolution. W.W. Norton and Co.: New York.
- Martin, R.D. 1990. Primate Origins and Evolution: A Phylogenetic Reconstruction. Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey.
- "Pronycticebus neglectus". members.tripod.com. Retrieved 2014-11-06.
- http://www.aim.unizh.ch/StaffofInstitute/AffResearchers/uthal/Publications.html
- Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
Literature cited
- Gebo, D.L. (2002). "Adapiformes: Phylogeny and adaptation". In Hartwig, W.C. (ed.). The Primate Fossil Record. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-08141-2. OCLC 47254191.
- Fleagle, J.G. (1998). Primate Adaptation and Evolution. Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-080-49213-1. OCLC 40543995.