''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 ...

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Abanico Formation Abanico Formation ( es, Formación 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''
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.org It had a body mass of about .

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Prehistoric monkeys Prehistoric primate genera Miocene primates of South America Colhuehuapian Neogene Chile Fossils of Chile Fossil taxa described in 1995 {{newworld-monkey-stub

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