Stirtonia Hershkovitz 1970 (monkey)

Mammalia - Primates - Atelidae

Synonym: Kondous Setoguchi 1985

Full reference: P. Hershkovitz. 1970. Notes on Tertiary Platyrrhine monkeys and description of a new genus from the Late Miocene of Colombia. Folia Primatologica 12:1-37

Parent taxon: Atelinae according to T. Setoguchi 1985

See also Hershkovitz 1970, Kay et al. 1987, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Setoguchi et al. 1981

Sister taxa: Atelini, Caipora, Protopithecus, Solimoea

Subtaxa: Stirtonia tatacoensis Stirtonia victoriae

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Ecology: arboreal folivore

Distribution:

• Huayquerian of Bolivia (1 collection)

• Miocene of Brazil (1), Colombia (5)

Total: 7 collections including 8 occurrences

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