''Chilecebus'' is an extinct genus of
New World monkeys that lived in what is now
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
(
Abanico Formation
Abanico Formation ( es, FormaciĆ³n Abanico) is a thick sedimentary formation exposed in the Andes of Central Chile. The formation has been deposited in a timespan from the Eocene to the Miocene. Abanico Formation's contact with the overlying Mi ...
) during the
Early Miocene some 20 million years ago. The
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...
is ''C. carrascoensis''.
[''Chilecebus'']
at Fossilworks
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.org It had a body mass of about .
See also
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List of fossil primates of South America
Various fossil primates have been found in South America and adjacent regions such as Panama and the Caribbean.Tejedor et al., 2013, p.22 Presently, 78 species of New World monkeys have been registered in South America.Rosenberger & Hartwig, 2001, ...
References
Prehistoric monkeys
Prehistoric primate genera
Miocene primates of South America
Colhuehuapian
Neogene Chile
Fossils of Chile
Fossil taxa described in 1995
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