Donrussellia provincialis Godinot 1978 (primate)

Mammalia - Primates - Adapidae

This is the first paper that attributes Donrussellia to Adapiformes (or Adapidae) as opposed to its original allocation to Omomyidae (see Szalay, 1976).

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Full reference: M. Godinot. 1978. Un nouvel Adapidé (primate) de l’Éocène inférieur de Provence. Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des sciences. Série D, Sciences naturelles 286:1869-1872

Belongs to Donrussellia according to M. Godinot 1998

Sister taxa: Donrussellia gallica, Donrussellia lusitanica, Donrussellia magna

Type specimen: RI 170, a mandible (mandible bearing M/1-3). Its type locality is Rians, which is in an Eocene terrestrial horizon in the Lignites de Soissonais Formation of France.

Ecology: arboreal herbivore

Distribution: found only at Rians

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