Mammalia - Primates - Plesiadapidae
Full reference: P. D. Gingerich. 1975. New North American Plesiadapidae (Mammalia, Primates) and a biostratigraphic zonation of the middle and upper Paleocene. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 24(13):135-148
Belongs to Chiromyoides according to P. D. Gingerich 1975
See also Gingerich and Dorr 1979
Sister taxa: Chiromyoides caesor, Chiromyoides campanicus, Chiromyoides gigas, Chiromyoides gingerichi, Chiromyoides kesiwah, Chiromyoides major, Chiromyoides mauberti, Chiromyoides potior
Type specimen: USNM 208976, a tooth (right upper central incisor). Its type locality is Chappo Type Locality, which is in a Tiffanian terrestrial horizon in the Wasatch Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: arboreal herbivore
Distribution: found only at Chappo Type Locality
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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