†Canaanimico amazonensis Marivaux et al. 2016 (monkey)
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Mammalia - Primates - Homunculidae
Full reference: L. Marivaux, S. Adnet, A. J. Altamirano-Sierra, M. Boivin, F. Pujos, A. Ramdarshan, R. Salas-Gismondi, J. V. Tejada-Lara, and P.-O. Antoine. 2016. Neotropics provide insights into the emergence of New World monkeys: New dental evidence from the late Oligocene of Peruvian Amazonia. Journal of Human Evolution 97:159-175
Belongs to Canaanimico according to L. Marivaux et al. 2016
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MUSM-2499, a tooth. Its type locality is CTA-61, which is in an Oligocene channel conglomerate in the Chambira Formation of Peru.
Ecology: arboreal omnivore
Distribution: found only at CTA-61
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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