Anthrasimias

Anthrasimias[1]
Temporal range: 55 Ma

Early Eocene

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorrhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes (Anthropoidea)
Parvorder: Catarrhini
Family: Eosimiidae
Genus: †Anthrasimias
Bajpai et al., 2008
Species: †A. gujaratensis
Bajpai et al., 2008
Binomial name
†Anthrasimias gujaratensis

Anthrasimias gujaratensis was a species of primate first found in Gujarat, India in 2008. Anthrasimias 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.[1]

Anthrasimias is the oldest known member of its family; the next oldest, Eosimias, lived about 45 million years ago in China.[1]

The generic name, Anthrasimias, refers to anthra, Greek for coal, because the fossils were found in a coal mine and simias, Latin for monkey or ape.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Bajpai, Sunil; et al. (2008-08-12). "The oldest Asian record of Anthropoidea" (PDF). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (32): 11093–11098. doi:10.1073/pnas.0804159105. PMC 2516236. PMID 18685095. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
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