Biology:Anthrasimias
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| Family: | †Asiadapidae
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| Genus: | †Anthrasimias Bajpai et al., 2008
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| Species: | †A. gujaratensis Bajpai et al., 2008
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| †Anthrasimias gujaratensis | |
Anthrasimias gujaratensis was a species of primate first found in Gujarat, India in 2008. Anthrasimias is believed to have lived about 55 million years ago, during the early Eocene. It weighed around 75 grams which would make it only slightly larger than the world's smallest primates, the mouse lemurs and the dwarf galagos.[1]
Anthrasimias gujaratensis is a junior synonym of Marcgodinotius.[2][3]
The generic name, Anthrasimias, refers to anthra, Greek for coal, because the fossils were found in a coal mine and simias, Latin for monkey or ape.[1]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bajpai, Sunil (2008-08-12). "The oldest Asian record of Anthropoidea". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (32): 11093–11098. doi:10.1073/pnas.0804159105. PMID 18685095. PMC 2516236. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/08/05/0804159105.full.pdf. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
- ↑ Dunn, Rachel H. (2016). "New euprimate postcrania from the early Eocene of Gujarat, India, and the strepsirrhine–haplorhine divergence". Journal of Human Evolution 99: 25–51. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.06.006. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248416300690.
- ↑ Twenty-five little bones tell a puzzling story about early primate evolution
Links
Wikidata ☰ Q4773864 entry
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