Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Alternative combination: Omomys sheai
Full reference: C. L. Gazin. 1962. A Further Study Of The Lower Eocene Mammalian Faunas Of Southwestern Wyoming. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 144(1):1-98
Belongs to Loveina according to P. A. Holroyd and S. G. Strait 2008
See also Gazin 1962, Gunnell and Rose 2002, Honey 1990, Muldoon and Gunnell 2002 and Stucky 1984
Sister taxa: Loveina hemphilli, Loveina minuta, Loveina wapitiensis, Loveina zephyri
Type specimen: U.S.N.M. No. 22384, a mandible (right ramus of mandible with M2-M3). Its type locality is La Barge, which is in a Wasatchian terrestrial mudstone in the Wasatch Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: arboreal insectivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (4: Wyoming collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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