Notharctus
Appearance
Notharctus | |
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Notharctus tenebrosus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
Family: | †Notharctidae |
Subfamily: | †Notharctinae |
Genus: | †Notharctus Leidy, 1870 |
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Notharctus is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in North America and Europe during the late to middle Eocene.[1]
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The body form of Notharctus is similar to that of modern rats. Its fingers were elongated for clamping onto branches, including the development of a thumb. Its spine is flexible and the animal was about 40 centimetres (16 in) in length, excluding the long tail.[2]
There were at least four different Notharctus species.[1] Fossils from at least seven other potential species have also been discovered.[citation needed]
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- 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.
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[edit]Categories:
- Notharctinae
- Prehistoric primate genera
- Eocene primates
- Ypresian life
- Lutetian life
- Bartonian life
- Wasatchian
- Bridgerian
- Uintan
- Eocene mammals of North America
- Fossils of the United States
- Paleontology in Colorado
- Paleontology in Nevada
- Paleontology in New Mexico
- Paleontology in Texas
- Paleontology in Utah
- Paleontology in Wyoming
- Fossil taxa described in 1870
- Taxa named by Joseph Leidy