Chilecebus

Chilecebus Temporal range: Early Miocene (Colhuehuapian) ~21.0–17.5 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Placentalia
Order:	Primates
Family:	Atelidae
Genus:	†Chilecebus
Species:	†C. carrascoensis
Binomial name
†Chilecebus carrascoensis Flynn, Wyss, Charrier and Swisher, 1995[1]

Chilecebus is an extinct genus of New World monkeys that lived in what is now Chile (Abanico Formation) during the Early Miocene some 20 million years ago. The type species is C. carrascoensis.^[2] It had a body mass of about 1,000 g (35 oz).^[3]

See also

• List of fossil primates of South America

References

1. Flynn, J.; et al. (16 February 1995). "An Early Miocene anthropoid skull from the Chilean Andes". Nature. 373 (6515): 603–607. Bibcode:1995Natur.373..603F. doi:10.1038/373603a0. PMID 7854415. S2CID 1537837.
2. Chilecebus at Fossilworks.org
3. Silvestro, Daniele; Tejedor, Marcelo F.; Serrano-Serrano, Martha L.; Loiseau, Oriane; Rossier, Victor; Rolland, Jonathan; Zizka, Alexander; Höhna, Sebastian; Antonelli, Alexandre; Salamin, Nicolas (2019), "Early Arrival and Climatically-Linked Geographic Expansion of New World Monkeys from Tiny African Ancestors", Systematic Biology, 68: 78–92, bioRxiv 10.1101/178111, doi:10.1093/sysbio/syy046, PMC 6292484