Teilhardina
Teilhardina[1][2] Temporal range: 56–47 Ma | |
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Teilhardina belgica | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorrhini |
Family: | †Omomyidae |
Genus: | †Teilhardina Simpson, 1940 |
Species | |
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Teilhardina was an early marmoset-like primate that lived in Europe, North America and Asia during in the Early Eocene epoch, about 56-47 million years ago.[1][3] The paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson is credited with naming it after the French paleontologist, Jesuit and philosopher Teilhard de Chardin. It is known from quite a few species:
- †Teilhardina crassidens
- †Teilhardina belgica
- †Teilhardina americana
- †Teilhardina brandti
- †Teilhardina demissa
- †Teilhardina tenuicula
- †Teilhardina asiatica
- †Teilhardina magnoliana
The placement of this genus is uncertain and it is likely to be polyphyletic.[4] Two species (T. belgica and T. asiatica) appear to be haplorrhine. The others appear to be anaptomorphine omomyids (and thus more closely related to the tarsiers than to simians) and should have a new genus erected.[5]
References
- 1 2 Beard, K.C. (2008). "The oldest North American primate and mammalian biogeography during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum" (PDF). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (10): 3815–8. doi:10.1073/pnas.0710180105. PMC 2268774. PMID 18316721.
- ↑ Tornow, M.A. (2008). "Systematic analysis of the Eocene primate family Omomyidae using gnathic and postcranial data". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 49 (1): 43–129. doi:10.3374/0079-032X(2008)49[43:SAOTEP]2.0.CO;2.
- ↑ Smith, T.; Rose, K.D.; Gingerich, P.D. (2006). "Rapid Asia-Europe-North America geographic dispersal of earliest Eocene primate Teilhardina during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (30): 11223–7. doi:10.1073/pnas.0511296103. PMC 1544069. PMID 16847264.
- ↑ Primates
- ↑ Omomyidae: Anaptomorphinae
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