| Tremacebus Temporal range: Late Oligocene |
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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) |
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Tremacebus harringtoni is an extinct species of New World monkey.
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.[1] 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.[2]
Only a few fossils have been found, including a skull from Patagonia.