Mescalerolemur horneri Kirk and Williams 2011 (primate)

Mammalia - Primates

Full reference: E. C. Kirk and B. A. Williams. 2011. New adapiform primate of Old World affinities from the Devil’s Graveyard Formation of Texas. Journal of Human Evolution 61(2):156-168

Belongs to Mescalerolemur according to E. C. Kirk and B. A. Williams 2011

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: TMM 41672-232, a maxilla (associated left and right maxillae). Its type locality is Purple Bench, which is in an Uintan terrestrial horizon in the Devil's Graveyard Formation of Texas.

Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution: found only at Purple Bench

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