Canaanimico amazonensis Marivaux et al. 2016 (monkey)

Mammalia - Primates - Homunculidae

Full reference: L. Marivaux, S. Adnet, A. J. Altamirano-Sierra, M. Boivin, F. Pujos, A. Ramdarshan, R. Salas-Gismondi, J. V. Tejada-Lara, and P.-O. Antoine. 2016. Neotropics provide insights into the emergence of New World monkeys: New dental evidence from the late Oligocene of Peruvian Amazonia. Journal of Human Evolution 97:159-175

Belongs to Canaanimico according to L. Marivaux et al. 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MUSM-2499, a tooth. Its type locality is CTA-61, which is in an Oligocene channel conglomerate in the Chambira Formation of Peru.

Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution: found only at CTA-61

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