Carpolestes

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Carpolestes
Fossil range: late Paleocene[1]
Carpolestes simpsoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Plesiadapiformes
Superfamily: †Carpolestoidea
Family: †Carpolestidae
Genus: †Carpolestes
Simpson, 1928
Type species
†Carpolestes nigridens
Paleospecies[1]

†C. dubius Jepsen, 1930
†C. nigridens Simpson, 1928
†C. simpsoni Bloch and Gingerich, 1998

Carpolestes is a genus of extinct primate-like mammals from the late Paleocene of North America. The three species of Carpolestes appear to form a lineage, with the earliest occurring species, C. dubius, ancestral to the type species, C. nigridens, which, in turn, was ancestral to the most recently occurring species, C. simpsoni.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c Bloch, J.I., D.C. Fisher,K.D. Rose,and P.D. Gingerich (2001). "Stratocladistic analysis of Paleocene Carpolestidae (Mammalia, Plesiadapiformes) with description of a new late Tiffanian genus". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21 (1): 119–131. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2001)021[0119:SAOPCM]2.0.CO;2. 
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