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Copelemur

Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae

Taxonomy

Copelemur was named by Gingerich and Simons (1977). It is not extant.

It was assigned to Notharctinae by Gingerich (1979); to Notharctinae by Franzen (1994); and to Adapidae by Gingerich and Simons (1977) and McKenna and Bell (1997).

Species

C. australotutus, C. praetutus, C. tutus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1977	Copelemur Gingerich and Simons
1979	Copelemur Gingerich p. 155
1994	Copelemur Franzen p. 115
1997	Copelemur McKenna and Bell

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha

Rank	Name	Author
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Theriamorpha	(Rowe 1993)
—	Theriiformes	()
—	Trechnotheria
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
—	Euarchonta
order	Primates
suborder	Strepsirrhini	Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
infraorder	Adapiformes	Hoffstetter 1977
superfamily	Adapoidea	Trouessart 1879
family	Notharctidae	Trouessart 1879
subfamily	Notharctinae	Trouessart 1879
genus	Copelemur

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Copelemur Gingerich and Simons 1977

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†Copelemur australotutus Beard 1988

†Copelemur praetutus Gazin 1962

†Copelemur tutus Cope 1877

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

arborealo

Diet:

omnivoreo

Reproduction:

viviparoussubc

Created:

2005-08-26 13:27:51

Modified:

2005-08-26 15:27:51

Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979

Age range: base of the Wasatchian to the top of the Bridgerian or 55.80000 to 46.20000 Ma

Collections (23 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Wasatchian	55.8 - 50.3	USA (New Mexico)	C. sp. (15448) C. tutus (15430 15446 15663)
Wasatchian	55.8 - 50.3	USA (Wyoming)	C. australotutus (15597 186931 186935 186936 186939 186946 186947) C. praetutus (16071) C. sp. (15552 15573 118482) C. tutus (186941) Pelycodus praetutus (15455 15717) Pelycodus sp. (15846 15893)
Wasatchian	55.8 - 50.3	USA (Colorado)	C. praetutus (15357)
Bridgerian	50.3 - 46.2	USA (Wyoming)	C. sp. (16204 16388)