Acrecebus

Acrecebus is a prehistoric cebid monkey from the Late Miocene Solimões Formation of Acre State, Brazil and Bolivia.[1][2] The only species known is A. fraileyi. This genus is closely related to the genus Cebus.[3]

Acrecebus
Temporal range: Late Miocene (Mayoan-Huayquerian)
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Cebidae
Subfamily: Cebinae
Genus: Acrecebus
Kay, 2006
Species:
A. fraileyi
Binomial name
Acrecebus fraileyi

References

  1. Acrecebus at Fossilworks.org
  2. Kay RF & Cozzuol MA (2006). "New platyrrhine monkeys from the Solimões Formation (late Miocene, Acre State, Brazil)". Journal of Human Evolution. 50 (6): 673–686. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.01.002. PMID 16530809.
  3. 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 2019-02-20.


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