Purgatorius titusi Buckley 1997 (primate)

Mammalia - Primates - Purgatoriidae

Full reference: G. A. Buckley. 1997. A New Species of Purgatorius (Mammalia; Primatomorpha) from the Lower Paleocene Bear Formation, Crazy Mountains Basin, South-Central Montana. Journal of Paleontology 71(1)

Belongs to Purgatorius according to G. A. Buckley 1997

See also Wilson Mantilla et al. 2021

Sister taxa: Purgatorius ceratops, Purgatorius coracis, Purgatorius janisae, Purgatorius mckeeveri, Purgatorius pinecreeensis, Purgatorius unio

Type specimen: UM 100203, a tooth (upper right M1). Its type locality is Simpson Quarry, which is in a Puercan terrestrial horizon in the Bear Formation of Montana.

Ecology: arboreal insectivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at Simpson Quarry

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