Biology:Agerinia

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Short description: Extinct genus of primates

Agerinia
Temporal range: Early Eocene
~48.6–40.4 Ma
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Strepsirrhini
Family: Notharctidae
Subfamily: Cercamoniinae
Genus: Agerinia
Crusafont-Pairo & Golpe-Posse 1973
Species
  • A. roselli Crusafont-Pairo & Golpe-Posse 1973 (type)
  • A. smithorum Femenias-Gual et al. 2016[1]
  • A. marandati Femenias-Gual et al. 2017[2]

Agerinia is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in Europe during the early Eocene.[3] Fossils have been found in the Grès d'Assignan, Lignites de Soissonais, and Calcare d'Agel Formations of France , the Corçà and Escanilla Formations of Spain and the Kuldana Formation of Pakistan .

References

  1. Joan Femenias-Gual; Raef Minwer-Barakat; Judit Marigó; Salvador Moyà-Solà (2016). "Agerinia smithorum sp. nov., a new early Eocene primate from the Iberian Peninsula". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 161 (1): 116–124. doi:10.1002/ajpa.23014. PMID 27306700. 
  2. Joan Femenias-Gual; Raef Minwer-Barakat; Judit Marigó; Miquel Poyatos-Moré; Salvador Moyà-Solà (2017). "Agerinia marandati sp. nov., a new early Eocene primate from the Iberian Peninsula, sheds new light on the evolution of the genus Agerinia". PeerJ 5: e3239. doi:10.7717/peerj.3239. PMID 28462042. 
  3. Gebo 2002, p. 27.

Bibliography

Wikidata ☰ Q20312679 entry