The European adapid primates Agerina and Pronycticebus

Title Variants

Alternative: Adapid primates

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Series: American Museum novitates, no. 2466

By

Szalay, Frederick S.

Crusafont Pairó, Miguel, 1910-

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, N.Y American Museum of Natural History [1971]

Notes

Title from caption.

"September 28, 1971."

"In 1967 Crusafont-Pairo reported the presence of several known and some new genera of primates from the Ager, IsaМЃbena, Noguera Palleresa, and Vich-MoiaМЂ basins of northern Spain."

"The entire sample of Agerina roselli Crusafont-Pairo, 1967, from late early Eocene sediments of the Ager Basin, Spain, is described and compared with its nearest relatives, species of Protoadapis, Pelycodus, and Pronycticebus gaudryi. Agerina is not a necrolemurid as suggested by its describer, but is clearly a member of the Adapidae. Two additional genera, described by Crusafont-Pairo in 1967 as omomyids, Arisella and Pivetonia, bear no particular resemblance to that group. The type specimen of Arisella appears to be an adapid, possibly that of Agerina or Protoadapis, whereas the sample described as Pivetonia isabenae may be near Pseudoloris parvulus. Generic distinction from Pseudoloris is not warranted, although Pseudoloris isabenae may be specifically distinct from Pseudoloris parvulus. A reevaluation of the cranium of Pronycticebus gaudryi confirms the view that this taxon is a primitive adapid"--P. [1].

Subjects

Adapidae , Ager Region , Agerina roselli , Eocene , Evolution , Lorises , Mammals, Fossil , Paleontology , Primates, Fossil , Pronycticebus gaudryi , Spain

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.2466, 1971

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 45607906