Mazateronodon
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

''Mazateronodon'' is a genus of
adapiform Adapiformes is a group of early primates. Adapiforms radiated throughout much of the northern continental mass (now Europe, Asia and North America), reaching as far south as northern Africa and tropical Asia. They existed from the Eocene to the M ...
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 ...
that lived in Europe during the middle
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' ...
.J. Marigó, R. Minwer-Barakat, and S. Moyà-Solà. 2010. New Anchomomyini (Adapoidea, Primates) from the Mazaterón Middle Eocene locality (Almazán Basin, Soria, Spain). Journal of Human Evolution 58(2):353-361


References


Literature cited

* {{Taxonbar, from=Q20735284 Prehistoric strepsirrhines Eocene primates Eocene mammals of Europe Prehistoric primate genera Fossil taxa described in 2010