Title
The European adapid primates Agerina and Pronycticebus
Title Variants
Alternative:
Adapid primates
Related Titles
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
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