''Panamacebus'' is an extinct
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
monkey
Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes. Thus monkeys, in that sense, co ...
known from the
Early Miocene
The Early Miocene (also known as Lower Miocene) is a sub-epoch of the Miocene epoch (geology), Epoch made up of two faunal stage, stages: the Aquitanian age, Aquitanian and Burdigalian stages.
The sub-epoch lasted from 23.03 ± 0.05 annum, Ma to ...
(
Hemingfordian
The Hemingfordian on the geologic timescale is the North American faunal stage according to the North American Land Mammal Ages chronology (NALMA), typically set from 20,600,000 to 16,300,000 years BP. It is usually considered to overlap the lates ...
in the
NALMA classification) of central
Panama
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and ...
.
[''Panamacebus'']
at Fossilworks
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History
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.org ''Panamacebus transitus'' is the only and type species of this genus.
Description
Together with ''
Paralouatta marianae'' from Cuba, it is the oldest known
New World monkey
New World monkeys are the five families of primates that are found in the tropical regions of Mexico, Central and South America: Callitrichidae, Cebidae, Aotidae, Pitheciidae, and Atelidae. The five families are ranked together as the Ceboi ...
of North America.
[Silvestro et al., 2017, p.14] Fossils of ''Panamacebus'', a left upper first molar and lower premolar,
[Bloch et al., 2016c, p.1] were uncovered from the
Las Cascadas Formation, of which
tuff
Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption. Following ejection and deposition, the ash is lithified into a solid rock. Rock that contains greater than 75% ash is considered tuff, while rock co ...
s were analyzed providing an age of 20.93 ± 0.17 Ma,
[Bloch et al., 2016b, p.6] of the
Panama Canal Zone
The Panama Canal Zone (), also known as just the Canal Zone, was a International zone#Concessions, concession of the United States located in the Isthmus of Panama that existed from 1903 to 1979. It consisted of the Panama Canal and an area gene ...
.
[Bloch et al., 2016a, p.243]
See also
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List of fossil primates of Central and South America
References
Bibliography
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?†Panamacebus
Monotypic prehistoric primate genera
Aquitanian life
Hemingfordian
Neogene Panama
Fossils of Panama
Panama Canal Zone
Fossil taxa described in 2016