Panamacebus is an extinct genus of monkey known from the Early Miocene (Hemingfordian in the NALMA classification) of central Panama.[1] Panamacebus transitus is the only and type species of this genus.
Description
Together with Paralouatta marianae from Cuba, it is the oldest known New World monkey of North America.[2] Fossils of Panamacebus, a left upper first molar and lower premolar,[3] were uncovered from the Las Cascadas Formation, of which tuffs were analyzed providing an age of 20.93 ± 0.17 Ma,[4] of the Panama Canal Zone.[5]
See also
References
- ^ Panamacebus at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Silvestro et al., 2017, p.14
- ^ Bloch et al., 2016c, p.1
- ^ Bloch et al., 2016b, p.6
- ^ Bloch et al., 2016a, p.243
Bibliography
Bloch, Jonathan I.; Emily D. Woodruff; Aaron R. Wood; Aldo F. Rincón; Arianna R. Harrington; Gary S. Morgan; David A. Foster; Camilo Montes, and Carlos A., Nathan A. Jud, Douglas S. Jones, Bruce J. MacFadden Jaramillo. 2016a. First North American fossil monkey and early Miocene tropical biotic interchange. Nature 533(7602). 243–246. Accessed 2019-02-14.
Bloch, Jonathan I.; Emily D. Woodruff; Aaron R. Wood; Aldo F. Rincón; Arianna R. Harrington; Gary S. Morgan; David A. Foster; Camilo Montes, and Carlos A., Nathan A. Jud, Douglas S. Jones, Bruce J. MacFadden Jaramillo. 2016b. Panamacebus - Supplementary Methods and Results. Nature 533(7602). 1–28. Accessed 2019-02-14.
Bloch, Jonathan I.; Emily D. Woodruff; Aaron R. Wood; Aldo F. Rincón; Arianna R. Harrington; Gary S. Morgan; David A. Foster; Camilo Montes, and Carlos A., Nathan A. Jud, Douglas S. Jones, Bruce J. MacFadden Jaramillo. 2016c. Panamacebus - Supplementary Figures. Nature 533(7602). 1–10. Accessed 2019-02-14.
Silvestro, Daniele; Marcelo F. Tejedor; Martha L. Serrano Serrano; Oriane Loiseau; Victor Rossier; Jonathan Rolland; Alexander Zizka; Alexandre Antonelli, and Nicolas Salamin. 2017. Evolutionary history of New World monkeys revealed by molecular and fossil data. BioRxiv _. 1–32. Accessed 2017-09-24.
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