Cuban Monkey
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| †Paralouatta varonai Rivero & Arredondo, 1991 |
The Cuban Monkey (†Paralouatta varonai) is an extinct species of small primate that lived on the island of Cuba.
The Cuban fossil primate, Paralouatta varonai was described from a nearly complete cranium in 1991. This cranium and a number of isolated teeth and postcranial bones were found in a cave site in Pinar del Rio Province. The initial description of the cranium included a proposal that Paralouatta varonai was a close Caribbean relative of the extant Alouatta (howler monkeys) of Central and South America,[1] but this taxonomic placement has been called into question with the analysis of the dental remains.[2] Based on shared similarities with the two other Caribbean primates Xenothrix mcgregori and Antillothrix bernensis, MacPhee and Horovitz have proposed that the Caribbean primates are part of a monophyletic radiation which entered the Caribbean at the Oligocene-Miocene boundary. More recent research confirms this assessment and places these three species in the tribe Xenotrichini.[3]
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- ^ Rivero, M. & Arredondo, O. (1991). "Paralouatta varonai, a new Quaternary platyrrhine from Cuba". Journal of Human Evolution 21: 1-11.
- ^ Horovitz, I. & MacPhee, R.D.E. (1999). "The quaternary Cuban platyrrhine Paralouatta varonai and the origin of the Antillean monkeys". Journal of Human Evolution 36 (1): 33-68. DOI:10.1006/jhev.1998.0259 .
- ^ MacPhee, R.D.E. & Horovitz, I. (2004). "New Craniodental Remains of the Quaternary Jamaican Monkey Xenothrix mcgregori (Xenotrichini, Callicebinae, Pitheciidae), with a Reconsideration of the Aotus Hypothesis". American Museum Novitates 3434 (1): 1-51. DOI:<0001:NCROTQ>2.0.CO;2 10.1206/0003-0082(2004)434<0001:NCROTQ>2.0.CO;2.
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