Xanthorhysis Beard 1998 (tarsier)

Mammalia - Primates - Tarsiidae

Full reference: K. C. Beard. 1998. A new genus of Tarsiidae (Mammalia: Primates) from the middle Eocene of Shanxi Province, China, with notes on the historical biogeography of tarsiers. Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History 34:260-277

Parent taxon: Tarsiidae according to G. F. Gunnell and E. R. Miller 2001

See also Beard 1998 and Gunnell and Rose 2002

Sister taxa: Carlito, Cephalopachus, Hesperotarsius, Oligotarsius, Tarsius

Subtaxa: Xanthorhysis tabrumi

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Type: Xanthorhysis tabrumi

Ecology: arboreal insectivore-carnivore

Distribution: found only at South of Liugou (Eocene of China)

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