Picromomys Rose and Bown 1996 (primate)

Mammalia - Primates - Picromomyidae

Full reference: K. D. Rose and T. M. Bown. 1996. A new plesiadapiform (Mammalia: Plesiadapiformes) from the early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Annals of Carnegie Museum 65(3):305-321

Parent taxon: Picromomyidae according to J. J. Hooker et al. 1999

See also McKenna and Bell 1997 and Rose and Bown 1996

Sister taxon: Alveojunctus

Subtaxa: Picromomys petersonorum

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Type: Picromomys petersonorum

Ecology: arboreal insectivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Elk Creek (390 m) (Eocene of Wyoming)

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