Hemiacodon engardae Murphey and Dunn 2009 (tarsier)

Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae

Full reference: P. C. Murphey and R. H. Dunn. 2009. Hemiacodon engardae, a new species of omomyid primate from the earliest Uintan Turtle Bluff Member of the Bridger Formation, southwestern Wyoming, USA. Journal of Human Evolution 57(2):123-130

Belongs to Hemiacodon according to P. C. Murphey and R. H. Dunn 2009

Sister taxa: Hemiacodon casamissus, Hemiacodon gracilis, Hemiacodon pygmaeus

Type specimen: UCM 67874, a mandible (right dentary fragment with P3-M2). Its type locality is Donna's Locality, which is in an Uintan terrestrial claystone in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: arboreal insectivore

Distribution: found only at Donna's Locality

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