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Tremacebus

Tremacebus
Temporal range: Late Miocene
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Skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Atelidae
Genus: Tremacebus
Hershkovitz, 1974
Species: T. harringtoni
Binomial name
Tremacebus harringtoni
(Rusconi, 1933)

Tremacebus harringtoni is an extinct species of New World monkey from the Miocene.

Tremacebus was about 1 metre (3.3 ft) in length, and would have resembled a modern night monkey, to which it may have been related. However, its eyes appear to have been smaller than the modern species, CT scans of the cranium suggest a relatively small olfactory bulb and poor sense of smell, compared with night monkeys. These features suggest that it may not have been nocturnal.

Only a few fossils have been found, including a skull from Patagonia.


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