Homunculus (genus)
Homunculus Temporal range: Early-Mid Miocene
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Pitheciidae |
Subfamily: | Pitheciinae |
Genus: | †Homunculus Ameghino, 1891 |
Type species | |
Homunculus patagonicus | |
Other Species | |
Homunculus vizcainoi Kay & Perry, 2019[1] |
Homunculus is an extinct genus of New World monkey that lived in Argentina during the Miocene.
Two species are known: Homunculus patagonicus (synonymous with Killikaike blakei)[2][3] and Homunculus vizcainoi, which was described in 2019 from material found in the in Argentina.[4]
References[]
- ^ "Homunculus vizcainoi". Fossilworks.
- ^ Tejedor, Marcelo F.; Rosenberger, Alfred L. (2008). "A neotype for Homunculus patagonicus Ameghino, 1891, and a new interpretation of the taxon" (PDF). PaleoAnthropology (2008): 68–82. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
- ^ Jonathan M.G. Perry; Richard F. Kay; Sergio F. Vizcaíno; M. Susana Bargo (2014). "Oldest known cranium of a juvenile New World monkey (Early Miocene, Patagonia, Argentina): Implications for the taxonomy and the molar eruption pattern of early platyrrhines" (PDF). Journal of Human Evolution. 74: 67–81. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.03.009. hdl:10161/10782. PMID 25081638.
- ^ Kay, R.F.; Perry, J.M.G. (2020). "New primates from the Río Santa Cruz and Río Bote (Early-Middle Miocene), Santa Cruz Province, Argentina". Publicacion Electronica de la Asociacion Paleontologica Argentina. 19 (2): 230–238. doi:10.5710/peapa.24.08.2019.289.
Categories:
- Miocene mammals of South America
- Miocene primates of South America
- Prehistoric mammals of South America
- Neogene Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina