Anthrasimias
| Anthrasimias[1] Temporal range: 55Ma Early Eocene | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorrhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes (Anthropoidea) |
| Parvorder: | Catarrhini |
| Family: | †Eosimiidae |
| Genus: | †Anthrasimias Bajpai et al., 2008 |
| Species: | †A. gujaratensis Bajpai et al., 2008 |
| Binomial name | |
| †Anthrasimias gujaratensis | |
Anthrasimias gujaratensis was a species of primate first found in Gujarat, India in 2008. Anthrasimias is believed to have lived about 55 million years ago, during the early Eocene. It weighed around 75 grams which would make it only slightly larger than the world's smallest primates, the mouse lemurs and the dwarf galagos.[1]
Anthrasimias is the oldest known member of its family; the next oldest, Eosimias, lived about 45 million years ago in China.[1]
The generic name, Anthrasimias, refers to anthra, Greek for coal, because the fossils were found in a coal mine and simias, Latin for monkey or ape.[1]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Bajpai, Sunil et al. (2008-08-12). "The oldest Asian record of Anthropoidea" (PDF). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (32): 11093–11098. doi:10.1073/pnas.0804159105. PMC 2516236. PMID 18685095. Retrieved 2008-08-08.