†Xanthorhysis Beard 1998 (tarsier)
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Mammalia - Primates - Tarsiidae
Full reference: K. C. Beard. 1998. A new genus of Tarsiidae (Mammalia: Primates) from the middle Eocene of Shanxi Province, China, with notes on the historical biogeography of tarsiers. Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History 34:260-277
Parent taxon: Tarsiidae according to G. F. Gunnell and E. R. Miller 2001
See also Beard 1998 and Gunnell and Rose 2002
Sister taxa: Carlito, Cephalopachus, Hesperotarsius, Oligotarsius, Tarsius
Subtaxa: Xanthorhysis tabrumi
Type: Xanthorhysis tabrumi
Ecology: arboreal insectivore-carnivore
Distribution: found only at South of Liugou (Eocene of China)
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