Biology:Heterohyus
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| Heterohyus[1] Temporal range: early to late Eocene
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| Heterohyus fossil from Messel Pit, at the Naturkundemuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
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| Genus: | †Heterohyus Gervais, 1848
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| †Heterohyus nanus | |
Heterohyus is an extinct genus of apatemyid from the early to late Eocene. A small, tree-dwelling creature with elongated fore- and middle fingers, in these regards it somewhat resembled a modern-day aye-aye.
Three skeletons have been found at the early Eocene site at Messel Pit, Germany[2]
References
Bibliography
- McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN:0-231-11013-8
- Morlo, Michael et al. An annotated taxonomic list of the Middle Eocene (MP11) Vertebratae of Messel gives as author: Teilhard de Chardin, 1921 - please refer to footnote 88.
- Kenneth David Rose. The Beginning of the Age of Mammals. JHU Press, 2006, ISBN:0-8018-8472-1, ISBN:978-0-8018-8472-6, 428 pp. gives as author: Koenigswald, 1990
- Schaal, Stephan, & Ziegler, Willi (eds) 1992. Messel. An insight into the history of life on Earth. Clarendon Press, Oxford. ISBN:0 19854654 8.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q5747268 entry
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