Mammalia - Primates - Plesiadapidae
Synonym: Plesiadapis farisi Dorr 1952
Full reference: G. L. Jepsen. 1930. New Vertebrate Fossils from the Lower Eocene of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 69(1):117-131
Belongs to Plesiadapis according to P. D. Gingerich 1975
See also Gingerich 1976, Jepsen 1930 and Winterfeld 1982
Sister taxa: Plesiadapis (Ancepsoides), Plesiadapis (Tricuspidens), Plesiadapis anceps, Plesiadapis berruensis, Plesiadapis chevillionii, Plesiadapis churchilli, Plesiadapis cookei, Plesiadapis dubius, Plesiadapis gingerichi, Plesiadapis insignis, Plesiadapis ploegi, Plesiadapis praecursor, Plesiadapis recticuspidens, Plesiadapis remensis, Plesiadapis rex, Plesiadapis russelli, Plesiadapis simonsi, Plesiadapis tricuspidens, Plesiadapis walbeckensis
Type specimens:
- Plesiadapis fodinatus: Princeton No. 13278, a mandible (right lower jaw with I-M2). Its type locality is Princeton Quarry, which is in a Tiffanian terrestrial horizon in the Fort Union Formation of Wyoming.
- Plesiadapis farisi:
Ecology: arboreal herbivore
Distribution:
• Clarkforkian of United States (1: Wyoming collection)
• Paleocene of United States (28: Colorado, North Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 29 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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