Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Alternative combination: Microsyops wilsoni
Full reference: F. S. Szalay. 1969. Mixodectidae, Microsyopidae, and the insectivore-primate transition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 140(4):193-330
Belongs to Arctodontomys according to P. D. Gingerich 1989
See also Gunnell 1985, Rose et al. 2012 and Szalay 1969
Sister taxa: Arctodontomys nuptus, Arctodontomys simplicidens
Type specimen: U.K.M.N.H. No. 8520, a mandible (fragmentary left mandible with P4-M2). Its type locality is University of Kansas Museum of Natural History Locality 32, which is in a Wasatchian terrestrial horizon in the Willwood Formation of Wyoming.
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (52: Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming collections)
• Clarkforkian of United States (4: Colorado, Wyoming)
Total: 56 collections each including a single occurrence
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