†Panamacebus transitus Bloch et al. 2016 (monkey)
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Full reference: J. I. Bloch, E. D. Woodruff, A. R. Wood, A. F. Rincon, A. R. Harrington, G. S. Morgan, D. A. Foster, C. Montes, C. A. Jarmillo, N. A. Jud, D. S. Jones and B. J. MacFadden. 2016. First North American fossil monkey and early Miocene tropical biotic interchange. Nature 533:243-246
Belongs to Panamacebus according to J. I. Bloch et al. 2016
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: UF 280128, a tooth (left upper first molar ). Its type locality is Lirio Norte (Las Cascadas Fm), which is in an Arikareean terrestrial tuff in the Las Cascadas Formation of Panama.
Ecology: arboreal frugivore-omnivore
Distribution: found only at Lirio Norte (Las Cascadas Fm)
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