'Anchomomys' Milleri
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

''Anchomomys' milleri'' is an
extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
primate Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys and apes, the latter including huma ...
related to lemuriforms that lived in
Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
during the early late
Eocene The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), Era. The name ''Eocene' ...
. It was originally thought to be a member of the European genus '' Anchomomys'', but was later aligned with the djebelemurids, although a new generic name needs to be assigned.


References

Prehistoric strepsirrhines Eocene primates Fossil taxa described in 1997 Eocene mammals of Africa {{paleo-primate-stub