Craseops Stock 1934 (primate)

Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae

Full reference: C. Stock. 1934. Microsyopsinae and Hyopsodontidae in the Sespe Upper Eocene, California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 20(6):349-354

Parent taxon: Microsyopinae according to G. F. Gunnell 1989

See also McKenna and Bell 1997, Stock 1934 and Van Valen 1967

Sister taxa: Arctodontomys, Megadelphus, Microsyops

Subtaxa: Craseops sylvestris

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Type: Craseops sylvestris

Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution: found only at Tapo Canyon (Upper) (Eocene of California)

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