Krabia minuta Chaimanee et al. 2013 (monkey)

Mammalia - Primates - Amphipithecidae

Full reference: Y. Chaimanee, O. Chavasseau, V. Lazzari, A. Euriat, and J.-J. Jaeger. 2013. A new Late Eocene primate from the Krabi Basin (Thailand) and the diversity of Palaeogene anthropoids in southeast Asia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280:20132268

Belongs to Krabia according to Y. Chaimanee et al. 2013

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MPFT-05-1, a maxilla (maxillary fragment preserving the crowns of left P4 – M2 (M3 represented only by small root frag- ment) and right M1 – M2). Its type locality is Bang Mark Lignite Mine, which is in an Eocene fluvial-lacustrine lignite in Thailand.

Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution: found only at Bang Mark Lignite Mine

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