Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Alternative combinations: Microsyops uintensis, Notharctus uintensis, Omomys uintensis
Full reference: H. F. Osborn. 1895. Fossil mammals of the Uinta Basin. Expedition of 1894. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 7(2):71-105
Belongs to Ourayia according to G. F. Gunnell 1995
See also Gazin 1958, Granger and Gregory 1917, Hay 1902, Krishtalka 1978, Robinson 1968, Simons 1961, Szalay 1976 and Wortman 1904
Sister taxon: Ourayia hopsoni
Type specimen: AMNH 1899, a mandible (jaw containing two premolars and two molars). Its type locality is White River Pocket, which is in an Uintan terrestrial horizon in the Uinta Formation of Utah.
Ecology: arboreal insectivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (8: Texas, Utah, Wyoming collections)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
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