Micromomys silvercouleei Szalay 1973 (primate)

Mammalia - Primates - Micromomyidae

Full reference: F. S. Szalay. 1973. New Paleocene Primates and a diagnosis of the new suborder Paromomyiformes. Folia Primatologica 19:73-87

Belongs to Micromomys according to K. D. Rose and T. M. Bown 1982

See also Szalay 1973

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PU No. 17676, a mandible (right mandible fragment with P4 and M2). Its type locality is Princeton Quarry, which is in a Tiffanian terrestrial horizon in the Fort Union Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution: found only at Princeton Quarry

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