Trichome

Panamacebus
Temporal range: Aquitanian (Hemingfordian)
~21.1–20.76 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Cebidae
Genus: Panamacebus
Bloch et al. 2016
Type species
Panamacebus transitus
Bloch et al. 2016

Panamacebus is an extinct genus of monkey known from the Early Miocene (Hemingfordian in the NALMA classification) of central Panama.[1] Panamacebus transitus is the only and type species of this genus.

Description[edit]

Together with Paralouatta marianae from Cuba, it is the oldest known New World monkey of North America.[2] Fossils of Panamacebus, a left upper first molar and lower premolar,[3] were uncovered from the Las Cascadas Formation, of which tuffs were analyzed providing an age of 20.93 ± 0.17 Ma,[4] of the Panama Canal Zone.[5]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Panamacebus at Fossilworks.org
  2. ^ Silvestro et al., 2017, p.14
  3. ^ Bloch et al., 2016c, p.1
  4. ^ Bloch et al., 2016b, p.6
  5. ^ Bloch et al., 2016a, p.243

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