Pronycticebus neglectus
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| Pronycticebus neglectus Fossil range: Eocene |
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| Pronycticebus neglectus Grandidier G., 1904 |
Pronycticebus neglectus was an adapiformes primate that lived during the middle to late Eocene. One almost complete specimen was found in Hostage Valley, Germany.
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[edit] Morphology
Pronycticebus neglectus possesses a grooming claw on the second digit of each foot like modern strepsirhines (Fleagle, 1999) and had a dental formula of 2:1:4:3. Pronycticebus neglectus has a petrosal bulla and a postorbital bar. Pronycticebus neglectus may have been a nocturnal or a crepuscular species, which is suggested by a relatively large orbital size. Pronycticebus neglectus has a relatively large baculum for a species of its size, which had an average body mass of 825 grams.
[edit] Range
Pronycticebus neglectus lived on the continent of Europe, in the present country of Germany.
[edit] Locomotion
Based upon limb morphology, Pronycticebus neglectus moved by quadrupedalism, leaping, and climbing. This species is less of a leaper than the notharctines and used slow quadrupedalism less than the adapines (Fleagle, 1999).
[edit] References
- Conroy, G.C. 1990. Primate Evolution. W.W. Norton and Co.: New York.
- Fleagle, J.G. 1999. Primate Adaptation and Evolution. Academic Press: San Diego.
- Martin, R.D. 1990. Primate Origins and Evolution: A Phylogenetic Reconstruction. Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey.
- http://members.tripod.com/cacajao/pronycticebus_neglectus.html
- http://www.aim.unizh.ch/StaffofInstitute/AffResearchers/uthal/Publications.html
- Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
