†Caipora Cartelle and Hartwig 1996 (monkey)
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Mammalia - Primates - Atelidae
Full reference: C. Cartelle and W. C. Hartwig. 1996. A new extinct primate among the Pleistocene megafauna of Bahia, Brazil. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 93:6405-6409
Parent taxon: Atelinae according to C. Cartelle and W. C. Hartwig 1996
Sister taxa: Atelini, Protopithecus, Solimoea
Subtaxa: Caipora bambuiorum
Type: Caipora bambuiorum
Ecology: arboreal omnivore
Distribution: found only at Toca da Boa Vista (Quaternary of Brazil)
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