Biology:Chilecebus
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Short description: Extinct genus of monkeys
| Chilecebus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Atelidae |
| Genus: | †Chilecebus |
| Species: | †C. carrascoensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Chilecebus carrascoensis Flynn, Wyss, Charrier and Swisher, 1995[1]
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Chilecebus is an extinct genus of New World monkeys that lived in what is now Chile (Abanico Formation) during the Early Miocene some 20 million years ago. The type species is C. carrascoensis.[2] It had a body mass of about 1,000 g (35 oz).[3]
See also
- List of fossil primates of South America
References
- ↑ Flynn, J. (16 February 1995). "An Early Miocene anthropoid skull from the Chilean Andes". Nature 373 (6515): 603–607. doi:10.1038/373603a0. PMID 7854415. Bibcode: 1995Natur.373..603F. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v373/n6515/abs/373603a0.html.
- ↑ Chilecebus at Fossilworks.org
- ↑ Silvestro, Daniele; Tejedor, Marcelo F.; Serrano Serrano, Martha L.; Loiseau, Oriane; Rossier, Victor; Rolland, Jonathan; Zizka, Alexander; Antonelli, Alexandre et al. (2017). "Evolutionary history of New World monkeys revealed by molecular and fossil data". BioRxiv _: 1–32. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/08/18/178111.full.pdf. Retrieved 2019-02-20.
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