List of fossil primates of South America
Various fossil primates have been found in South America and adjacent regions such as Panama and the Caribbean.[1] Presently, 78 species of New World monkeys have been registered in South America.[2] Around the middle of the Cenozoic, approximately 34 million years ago,[3] two types of mammals appeared for the first time in South America: rodents and primates. Both of these groups had already been inhabiting other continents for millions of years and they simply arrived in South America rather than originated there. Analyses of evolutionary relationships have shown that their closest relatives were living in Africa at the time. Therefore, the most likely explanation is that they somehow crossed the Atlantic Ocean, which was less wide than today, landed in South America, and founded new populations of rodents and primates.[4]
The first South American primates gave rise to an impressive evolutionary radiation: more than 120 species in five families. These primates are known as
The presently oldest New World monkey is Perupithecus ucayaliensis from Amazonian Peru, described in 2015.[5] A 2017 study of the fossils estimated the body mass for the various fossil primate species.[6] However, the Ucayalipithecus who might have rafted across the Atlantic between ~35–32 million years ago, are nested within the Parapithecoidea from the Eocene of Afro-Arabia.[7]
List of fossil primates of South America
Note: some authors, among others
The Panamanian and Caribbean fossil primates have been included for completeness.
Age (SALMA/NALMA) |
Formation | Country | Family | Subfamily | Genus | Species bold is type |
Estimated body mass |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Divisaderan | Yahuarango Fm. | Peru | incertae sedis | incertae sedis | Perupithecus | P. ucayaliensis | 400 g (0.88 lb) | |
Deseadan | Chambira Fm. | Canaanimico | C. amazonensis | 2,000 g (4.4 lb) | ||||
Salla Fm. | Bolivia | Branisella | B. boliviana | 1,000 g (2.2 lb) | ||||
Szalatavus | S. attricuspis | 550 g (1.21 lb) | ||||||
Hemingfordian |
Lagunitas Fm. | Cuba | Atelidae | Alouattinae |
Paralouatta | P. marianae | 4,708 g (10.38 lb) | |
Las Cascadas Fm. | Panama | Cebidae | stem cebid | Panamacebus | P. transitus | 2,700 g (6.0 lb) | ||
Colhuehuapian | Sarmiento Fm. | Argentina | Saimirinae |
Dolichocebus | D. gaimanensis | 2,700 g (6.0 lb) | ||
Aotidae |
stem aotid | Tremacebus | T. harringtoni | 1,800 g (4.0 lb) | ||||
Pitheciidae | Pitheciinae | Mazzonicebus | M. almendrae | 1,602 g (3.532 lb) | ||||
Abanico Fm. | Chile | Atelidae | stem atelid | Chilecebus | C. carrascoensis | 1,000 g (2.2 lb) | ||
Santacrucian | Santa Cruz Fm. |
Argentina | Cebidae | Cebinae |
Killikaike | K. blakei | 2,000 g (4.4 lb) | |
Pitheciidae | Callicebinae |
Homunculus |
H. patagonicus | 2,700 g (6.0 lb) | ||||
Pinturas Fm. | Carlocebus | C. carmenensis | 3,500 g (7.7 lb) | |||||
C. intermedius | ||||||||
Pitheciinae | Soriacebus | S. adrianae | ||||||
S. ameghinorum | 1,483 g (3.269 lb) | |||||||
Friasian | Collón Cura Fm. |
Proteropithecia | P. neuquenensis | 1,600 g (3.5 lb) | ||||
Laventan | Honda Gp. | Colombia | Atelidae | Alouattinae |
Stirtonia |
S. tatacoensis | 5,513 g (12.154 lb) | |
S. victoriae | 10,000 g (22 lb) | |||||||
Cebidae | Saimirinae |
Saimiri |
S. annectens | 605 g (1.334 lb) | ||||
S. fieldsi | 768 g (1.693 lb) | |||||||
Patasola |
P. magdalenae | 480 g (1.06 lb) | ||||||
incertae sedis | incerstae sedis | Lagonimico | L. conclucatus | 595 g (1.312 lb) | ||||
Callitrichidae | - | Micodon | M. kiotensis | 400 g (0.88 lb) | ||||
Aotidae |
- | Aotus |
A. dindensis | 1,054 g (2.324 lb) | ||||
Pitheciidae | Callicebinae |
Miocallicebus | M. villaviejai | 1,500 g (3.3 lb) | ||||
Pitheciinae | Cebupithecia | C. sarmientoi | 1,602 g (3.532 lb) | |||||
Nuciruptor | N. rubricae | 2,000 g (4.4 lb) | ||||||
Atelidae | stem atelid | Mohanamico | M. hershkovitzi | 1,000 g (2.2 lb) | ||||
Huayquerian | Solimões Fm. |
Brazil | Atelidae | Atelinae | Solimoea | S. acrensis | 8,000 g (18 lb) | |
Brazil Bolivia |
Cebidae | Cebinae |
Acrecebus | A. fraileyi | 12,000 g (26 lb) | |||
Pleistocene | Cueva del Mono | Cuba | Atelidae | Alouattinae |
Paralouatta | P. varonai | 8,444 g (18.616 lb) | |
Brazil | Cartelles | C. coimbrafilhoi | 23,500 g (51.8 lb) | |||||
Caipora |
C. bambuiorum | 24,000 g (53 lb) | ||||||
Protopithecus | P. bonaeriensis | 22,600 g (49.8 lb) | ||||||
P. brasiliensis | ||||||||
Alouatta |
A. mauroi | |||||||
Holocene | La Jeringa Cave | Dominican Republic | Pitheciidae | Pitheciinae | Antillothrix | A. bernensis | 1,500 g (3.3 lb) | |
Long Mile Cave | Jamaica | Xenothrix | X. mcgregori | 5,720 g (12.61 lb) | ||||
Trouing Jérémie | Haiti | Insulacebus | I. toussentiana | 4,805 g (10.593 lb) |
See also
References
- ^ Tejedor et al., 2013, p. 22
- ^ Rosenberger & Hartwig, 2001, p. 2
- ^ Lynch Alfaro et al., 2015, p. 519
- ^ a b South American Fossil Mammals
- ^ Bond et al., 2015, p. 538
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai Silvestro et al., 2017, p. 14
- ^ Seiffert et al., 2020, pp. 194–197
- ^ Perupithecus at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Marivaux et al., 2016
- ^ Canaanimico at Fossilworks.org
- ^ a b Branisella boliviana at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Püschel et al., 2017
- ^ MacPhee et al., 2003, p. 6
- ^ Paralouatta marianae at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Bloch et al., 2016a, p. 243
- ^ Panamacebus at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Dolichocebus at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Tremacebus at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Mazzonicebus at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Chilecebus at Fossilworks.org
- ^ a b Homunculus at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Carlocebus carmenensis at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Carlocebus intermedius at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Soriacebus adrianae at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Soriacebus ameghinorum at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Stirtonia tatacoensis at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Stirtonia victoriae at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Saimiri annectens at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Saimiri fieldsi at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Patasola magdalenae in the Paleobiology Database
- ^ Lagonimico conclucatus at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Micodon kiotensis at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Aotus dindensis at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Miocallicebus villaviejai at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Cebupithecia sarmientoi at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Nuciruptor rubricae in the Paleobiology Database
- ^ Luchterhand et al., 1986, p. 1753
- ^ Solimoea at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Acrecebus at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Horovitz & MacPhee, 1999, p. 37
- ^ a b Cartelle & Hartwig, 1996
- ^ Caipora bambuiorum at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Protopithecus bonaeriensis at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Halenar & Rosenberger, 2013
- ^ Protopithecus brasiliensis at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Tejedor et al., 2008
- ^ Alouatta mauroi at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Xenothrix at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Insulacebus at Fossilworks.org
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Further reading
- ISBN 9780253020949. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
- Fleagle, John G.; Rosenberger, Alfred L. (2013). The Platyrrhine Fossil Record. ISBN 9781483267074. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
- ISBN 978-0-521-08141-2. Retrieved 2017-09-24.