Microsyops
| Microsyops Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Plesiadapiformes |
| Family: | †Microsyopidae |
| Genus: | †Microsyops Leidy, 1872 |
| Species: | †M. annectens
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| Binomial name | |
| †Microsyops annectens (Marsh, 1872)
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Microsyops annectens is a plesiadapiform primate found in Middle Eocene in North America.[1] It is in the family Microsyopidae. It was a tree-dwelling insectivore. It appears to have had a more developed sense of smell than other early primates.[2]
References
- ^ "Megadelphus". Fossilworks.org. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
- ^ Silcox, Mary T., Ashleigh E. Benham, and Jonathan I. Bloch. "Endocasts of Microsyops (Microsyopidae, Primates) and the evolution of the brain in primitive primates." Journal of human evolution 58.6 (2010): 505-521.
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