Family Atelidae Gray 1825 (monkey)

Mammalia - Primates - Atelidae

Parent taxon: Platyrrhini according to J. C. Opazo et al. 2006

See also Carroll 1988, Hartwig and Cartelle 1996, MacPhee and Horovitz 2002, Setoguchi and Rosenberger 1987 and Wilson and Reeder 2005

Sister taxa: Ateloidea, Carlocebus, Cebidae, Chilecebus, Homunculidae, Parvimico, Pitheciidae, Xenotrichidae

Subtaxa: Alouatta Alouattinae Ateles Atelinae Brachyteles Lagothrix

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Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Brazil (5 collections), Panama (1), Peru (1), Venezuela (1)

• Huayquerian of Bolivia (1)

• Miocene of Brazil (3), Colombia (5)

Total: 17 collections including 24 occurrences

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