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) |
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.