Mammalia - Notoungulata - Notopithecidae
Synonyms: Adpithecus Ameghino 1901, Epipithecus Ameghino 1904, Gonopithecus Ameghino 1904
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1897. Mammiféres crétacés de l’Argentine (Deuxième contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique de couches à Pyrotherium) [Cretaceous mammals of Argentina (second contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Pyrotherium Beds)]. Boletin Instituto Geografico Argentino 18(4–9):406-521
Parent taxon: Notopithecidae according to B. Vera 2016
See also Ameghino 1897, Ameghino 1901, Ameghino 1904, Carroll 1988, Reguero and Prevosti 2010 and Simpson 1967
Sister taxa: Antepithecus, Eupithecops, Guilielmoscottia, Transpithecus
Subtaxa: Notopithecus adapinus
Type: Notopithecus adapinus
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Argentina (30 collections)
Total: 30 collections including 38 occurrences
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