Microsyops
Microsyops | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Plesiadapiformes |
Family: | † |
Subfamily: | † |
Genus: | †Microsyops Leidy, 1872 |
Species | |
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Microsyops is a plesiadapiform primate found in Middle Eocene in North America.[1] It is in the family . It appears to have had a more developed sense of smell than other early primates.[2] It is believed to have eaten fruit, and its fossils show the oldest known dental cavities in a mammal.[3][4]
References[]
- ^ Microsyops at fossilworks.org
- ^ Silcox, Mary T., Ashleigh E. Benham, and Jonathan I. Bloch. "Endocasts of Microsyops (Microsyopidae, Primates) and the evolution of the brain in primitive primates." Journal of human evolution 58.6 (2010): 505-521.
- ^ Early Eocene Primate Had Dental Caries, Sep 10, 2021
- ^ The largest and earliest known sample of dental caries in an extinct mammal (Mammalia, Euarchonta, Microsyops latidens) and its ecological implications
Categories:
- Plesiadapiformes
- Prehistoric primate genera
- Eocene primates
- Ypresian life
- Lutetian life
- Bartonian life
- Wasatchian
- Bridgerian
- Uintan
- Eocene mammals of North America
- Fossils of the United States
- Paleontology in California
- Paleontology in Colorado
- Paleontology in Montana
- Paleontology in New Mexico
- Paleontology in North Dakota
- Paleontology in Texas
- Paleontology in Utah
- Paleontology in Wyoming
- Fossil taxa described in 1875
- Taxa named by Joseph Leidy
- Prehistoric mammal stubs