Marcgodinotius Explained

Marcgodinotius is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in Asia during the early Eocene.^[1] It is a monotypic genus, the only species being Marcgodinotius indicus. Another adapiform primate Suratius robustus was found in the same horizon.^[2] Anthrasimias may be a junior synonym of Marcgodinotius and Anthrasimias gujaratensis a junior synonym of Marcgodinotius indicus.^{[3] [4]}

Marcgodinotius indicus was a species of primate first found in Gujarat, India in 2005. It is believed to have lived about 55 million years ago, during the early Eocene. It weighed around 75 grams which would make it only slightly larger than the world's smallest primates, the mouse lemurs and the dwarf galagos.^[5]

The generic name, Anthrasimias, referred to, Greek for coal, because the fossils were found in a coal mine and Latin: simias, Latin for monkey or ape.

See also

• Ganlea
• Biretia

External links

• New euprimate postcrania from the early Eocene of Gujarat, India, and the strepsirrhine–haplorhine divergence

Literature cited

• Book: Fleagle . J.G. . 2013 . Primate Adaptation and Evolution . 3rd . . 978-0-123-78633-3 . 820107187 .

Notes and References

1. Bajpai . Sunil . Kapur . Vivesh V. . Thewissen . J. G. M. . Das . Debasis P. . Tiwari . B. N. . Sharma . Ritu . Saravanan . N. . 2005 . Early eocene primates from Vastan lignite mine, Gujarat, western India . Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India . en . 50 . 2 . 43–45 . 0552-9360.
2. Bajpai . Sunil . Kapur . Vivesh V. . Das . Debasis P. . Tiwari . B. N. . 2007 . New early eocene primate (Mammalia) from Vastan lignite Mine, District Surat (Gujarat), western India . Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India . 52 . 2 . 231–234 . 0552-9360.
3. 10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.06.006 . 27650579. 99 . New euprimate postcrania from the early Eocene of Gujarat, India, and the strepsirrhine–haplorhine divergence . 2016 . Journal of Human Evolution . 25–51 . Dunn . Rachel H.. 2016JHumE..99...25D .
4. Web site: Twenty-five little bones tell a puzzling story about early primate evolution: Newly discovered primate bones appear to be the most primitive ever found. ScienceDaily. 21 February 2019.
5. Bajpai . Sunil . etal . 2008 . The oldest Asian record of Anthropoidea . . 105 . 32 . 11093–11098 . 2008PNAS..10511093B . 10.1073/pnas.0804159105 . 2516236 . 18685095 . 2008-08-08 . free.