Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae

Full reference: J. L. Franzen. 1987. Ein neuer Primate aus dem Mitteleozän der Grube Messel (Deutschland, S-Hessen); (A new primate from the Middle Eocene of Grube Messel (Germany, Southern Hessen)). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 91:151-187

Belongs to Europolemur according to M. Godinot 1998

See also Franzen 1987 and Franzen 2004

Sister taxa: Europolemur kelleri, Europolemur klatti, Europolemur midiensis

Type specimen: SMF ME 1228 A-E, Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, F, a partial skeleton (skull and part of postcrania). Its type locality is Grube Messel SMF 21/1982, which is in a MP 11 lacustrine - large shale in the Messel Formation of Germany.

Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution: found only at Grube Messel SMF 21/1982

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