Palaeohodites naduensis Rust et al. 2023 (primate)

Mammalia - Primates - Ekgmowechashalidae

Full reference: K. Rust, X. Ni, K. Tietjen and K. C. Beard. 2023. Phylogeny and paleobiogeography of the enigmatic North American primate Ekgmowechashala illuminated by new fossils from Nebraska (USA) and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China). Journal of Human Evolution

Belongs to Palaeohodites according to K. Rust et al. 2023

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: IVPP V 12758, a mandible (right dentary with m1). Its type locality is Northeastern Quelin Village, which is in an Eocene terrestrial horizon in the Nadu Formation of China.

Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution: found only at Northeastern Quelin Village

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