Acrecebus

Acrecebus
Temporal range: Late Miocene (Mayoan-Huayquerian)
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Cebidae
Subfamily: Cebinae
Genus: †
Kay, 2006
Species:
†A. fraileyi
Binomial name
†Acrecebus fraileyi

Acrecebus is a prehistoric cebid monkey from the Late Miocene Solimões Formation of Acre State, Brazil and Bolivia.[1][2] The only species known is A. fraileyi. This genus is closely related to the genus Cebus.[3]

References

  1. ^ Acrecebus at Fossilworks.org
  2. ^ Kay RF & Cozzuol MA (2006). "New platyrrhine monkeys from the Solimões Formation (late Miocene, Acre State, Brazil)". Journal of Human Evolution. 50 (6): 673–686. Bibcode:2006JHumE..50..673K. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.01.002. PMID 16530809.
  3. ^ Silvestro, Daniele; Tejedor, Marcelo F.; Serrano Serrano, Martha L.; Loiseau, Oriane; Rossier, Victor; Rolland, Jonathan; Zizka, Alexander; Antonelli, Alexandre; Salamin, Nicolas (2017), "Evolutionary history of New World monkeys revealed by molecular and fossil data" (PDF), BioRxiv, _: 1–32, retrieved 2019-02-20


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