Tremacebus Hershkovitz 1974 (monkey)

Mammalia - Primates - Cebidae

Full reference: P. Hershkovitz. 1974. A new genus of Late Oligocene monkey (Cebidae, Platyrrhini) with notes on postorbital closure and platyrrhine evolution. Folia Primatologica 21(1):1-35

Parent taxon: Tremacebinae according to P. Hershkovitz 1974

See also McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Tremacebus harringtoni

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Type: Homunculus harringtoni

Ecology: arboreal frugivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Sacanana (Miocene of Argentina)

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