Heterohyus

Heterohyus Temporal range: early to late Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	†Cimolesta
Suborder:	†Apatotheria
Family:	†Apatemyidae
Genus:	†Heterohyus Gervais, 1848
Type species
†Heterohyus nanus

Heterohyus is an extinct genus of apatemyid from the early to late Eocene. A small, tree-dwelling creature with elongated fore- and middle fingers, in these regards it somewhat resembled a modern-day aye-aye.

References

• McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8
• Morlo, Michael et al. An annotated taxonomic list of the Middle Eocene (MP11) Vertebratae of Messel gives as author: Teilhard de Chardin, 1921 - please refer to footnote 88.
• Kenneth David Rose. The Beginning of the Age of Mammals. JHU Press, 2006, ISBN 0-8018-8472-1, ISBN 978-0-8018-8472-6, 428 pp. gives as author: Koenigswald, 1990