| Homunculus Temporal range: Miocene |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | Pitheciidae |
| Subfamily: | Callicebinae |
| Genus: | Homunculus |
| Species: | H. patagonicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Homunculus patagonicus Ameghino, 1894 |
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Homunculus patagonicus is an extinct New World monkey species that lived in Argentina during the Miocene. It is likely the ancestral species for the Callicebinae subfamily, whose living members are the titi monkeys.