Homunculus vizcainoi Kay and Perry 2019 (monkey)

Mammalia - Primates - Homunculidae

Full reference: R. F. Kay and J. M. G. Perry. 2019. New Primates From the Río Santa Cruz and Río Bote (Early-Middle Miocene), Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 19(2):230-238

Belongs to Homunculus according to R. F. Kay and J. M. G. Perry 2019

Sister taxon: Homunculus patagonicus

Type specimen: MPM-PV 19426, a tooth (a left m1 in a fragment of a mandible.)

Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution: found only at Segundas Barrancas Blancas (SBB) - Estancia El Tordillo (EET) (Miocene of Argentina)

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