Insulacebus toussaintiana Cooke et al. 2011 (monkey)

Mammalia - Primates

Full reference: S. B. Cooke, A. L. Rosenberger, and S. Turvey. 2011. An extinct monkey from Haiti and the origins of the Greater Antillean primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108:2699-2704

Belongs to Insulacebus according to S. B. Cooke et al. 2011

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UF 114714, a partial skull (nearly complete dentition and associated maxillary and mandibular fragment). Its type locality is Trouing Jérémie no. 5, which is in a Holocene sinkhole horizon in Haiti.

Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution: found only at Trouing Jérémie no. 5

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