Mammalia - Primates

Although Parvimico is placed within Platyrrhini by the authors, the phylogenetic analysis does not support this designation.

Full reference: R. F. Kay, L. A. Gonzales, W. Salenbien, J.-N. Martinez, S. B. Cooke, L. A. Valdivia, C. Rigsby and P. A. Baker. 2019. Parvimico materdei gen. et sp. nov.: A new platyrrhine from the Early Miocene of the Amazon Basin, Peru. Journal of Human Evolution 134:102628:1-16

Parent taxon: Platyrrhini according to R. F. Kay et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Atelidae, Ateloidea, Carlocebus, Cebidae, Chilecebus, Homunculidae, Pitheciidae, Xenotrichidae

Subtaxa: Parvimico materdei

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Type: Parvimico materdei

Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution: found only at AMD-45 (Miocene of Peru)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.