Bownomomys | |
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Scientific classification![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Family: | †Omomyidae |
Subfamily: | †Anaptomorphinae |
Tribe: | †Anaptomorphini |
Genus: | †Bownomomys Morse et al.,2018 |
Type species | |
†Bownomomys americanus (Bown, 1976) | |
Species | |
Bownomomys was an earlymarmoset-likeprimate that lived inNorth America during the EarlyEocene epoch, about 56-50 million years ago.[1]
Teilhardina americana andT. crassidens were originally named as species ofTeilhardina, usually considered a member of Omomyidae.[2][3] However,phylogenetic analysis by Ni et al. (2004) recoveredTeilhardina aspolyphyletic, withTeilhardina belgica andT. asiatica nested as the basalmosthaplorrhines, andT. americana andT. crassidens being recovered asanaptomorphineomomyids (and thus more closely related to thetarsiers than tosimians).Teilhardina crassidens was later referred to the genusBaataromomys by Ni et al. (2007).[4][5] A paper by Morse et al. built upon the cladistic results of Ni et al. (2004) by recognizingT. americana andT. crassidens as belonging to a new genus, which they namedBownomomys.[6]