Biology:Masradapis

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Short description: Extinct genus of primates

Masradapis
Temporal range: Priabonian
~38 Ma
Scientific classification edit
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Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Chordata
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Mammalia
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Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Adapidae
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Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Masradapis
Seiffert et al. 2017
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Binomial name
Masradapis tahai
Seiffert et al. 2017

Masradapis is an extinct genus of caenopithecine primate from the Priabonian Birket Qarun Formation of the Fayum Depression, Egypt. The type and only species, Masradapis tahai, was named and described by Erik R. Seiffert et al., in 2017.[1] Bayesian tip-dating, when combined with Bayesian biogeographic analysis, suggests that a common ancestor of known caenopithecines dispersed to Afro-Arabia from Europe between 49.4 and 47.4 Ma, and that a trans-Tethyan back-dispersal explains Caenopithecus’ later presence in Europe.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Seiffert, Erik R.; Fleagle, John; Boyer, Doug M.; Sallam, Hesham M. (2017). "New adapiform primate fossils from the late Eocene of Egypt". Historical Biology 30 (1–2): 204–226. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1306522. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315842489. 

Wikidata ☰ Q55393584 entry