Chilecebus carrascoensis

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Chilecebus carrascoensis
Fossil range: Early Miocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cebidae
Genus: Chilecebus
Species: C. carrascoensis
Binomial name
Chilecebus carrascoensis

Chilecebus carrascoensis is an extinct species of New World monkey that lived in what is now Chile during the Early Miocene.

[edit] References

  • Flynn, J., et al. An Early Miocene anthropoid skull from the Chilean Andes. Nature 373, 603 - 607 (February 16, 1995). [1]
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