''Panamacebus'' is an extinct
genus of
monkey
Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes, which constitutes an incomple ...
known from the
Early Miocene (
Hemingfordian in the
NALMA classification) of central
Panama.
[''Panamacebus'']
at Fossilworks
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.org ''Panamacebus transitus'' is the only and type species of this genus.
Description
Together with ''
Paralouatta marianae
''Paralouatta'' is a platyrrhine genus that currently contains two extinct species of small primates that lived on the island of Cuba.
Description
''Paralouatta varonai'' was described from a nearly complete cranium from the late Quaternary in ...
'' from Cuba, it is the oldest known
New World monkey of North America.
[Silvestro et al., 2017, p.14] Fossils of ''Panamacebus'', a left upper first molar and lower premolar,
[Bloch et al., 2016c, p.1] were uncovered from the
Las Cascadas Formation, of which
tuffs were analyzed providing an age of 20.93 ± 0.17 Ma,
[Bloch et al., 2016b, p.6] of the
Panama Canal Zone
The Panama Canal Zone ( es, Zona del Canal de Panamá), also simply known as the Canal Zone, was an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the Isthmus of Panama, that existed from 1903 to 1979. It was located within the terr ...
.
[Bloch et al., 2016a, p.243]
See also
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List of fossil primates of Central and South America
References
Bibliography
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?†Panamacebus
Prehistoric primate genera
Aquitanian life
Hemingfordian
Neogene Panama
Fossils of Panama
Panama Canal Zone
Fossil taxa described in 2016