Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Full reference: K. C. Beard, L. Kristalka, and R. K. Stucky. 1992. Revision of the Wind River faunas, early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 12. New species of omomyid primates (Mammalia: Primates: Omomyidae) and omomyid taxonomic composition across the early-middle Eocene boundary. Annals of Carnegie Museum 61(1):39-62
Belongs to Hemiacodon according to P. C. Murphey and R. H. Dunn 2009
See also Beard et al. 1992
Sister taxa: Hemiacodon engardae, Hemiacodon gracilis, Hemiacodon pygmaeus
Type specimen: CM 62035, a mandible (associated left and right dentary fragments preserving left M2, talonid heel of left M3, right M1-2, and right P3). Its type locality is Buck Spring Quarries, which is in a Lostcabinian terrestrial limestone in the Wind River Formation of Wyoming.
Ecology: arboreal insectivore
Distribution: found only at Buck Spring Quarries
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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