Panamacebus Explained

Panamacebus is an extinct genus of monkey known from the Early Miocene (Hemingfordian in the NALMA classification) of central Panama.[1] Panamacebus transitus is the only and type species of this genus.

Description

Together with Paralouatta marianae from Cuba, it is the oldest known New World monkey of North America.[2] Fossils of Panamacebus, a left upper first molar and lower premolar,[3] were uncovered from the Las Cascadas Formation, of which tuffs were analyzed providing an age of 20.93 ± 0.17 Ma,[4] of the Panama Canal Zone.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=339831 Panamacebus
  2. Silvestro et al., 2017, p.14
  3. Bloch et al., 2016c, p.1
  4. Bloch et al., 2016b, p.6
  5. Bloch et al., 2016a, p.243