Pronycticebus
Sign in to savePronycticebus was a genus of adapiform primates that lived during the early to middle Eocene. It is represented by Pronycticebus gaudryi, from the Quercy Phosphorites Formation of France. A second species, P. neglectus, was moved to its own genus Godinotia in 2000.
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Pronycticebus was a genus of adapiform primates that lived during the early to middle Eocene. It is represented by Pronycticebus gaudryi, from the Quercy Phosphorites Formation of France. A second species, P. neglectus, was moved to its own genus Godinotia in 2000.
==References== Conroy, G.C. 1990. Primate Evolution. W.W. Norton and Co.: New York. Martin, R.D. 1990. Primate Origins and Evolution: A Phylogenetic Reconstruction. Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey.
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