| Pronycticebus Temporal range:Early–Middle Eocene | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | †Notharctidae |
| Subfamily: | †Cercamoniinae |
| Genus: | †Pronycticebus G. Grandidier, 1904 |
| Type species | |
| †Pronycticebus gaudryi G. Grandidier, 1904 | |
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Pronycticebus was a genus ofadapiformesprimates that lived during the early to middleEocene. It is represented by two species,Pronycticebus gaudryi andPronycticebus neglectus,[1] of which an almost complete specimen was found inGermany,[2] and theQuercy Phosphorites Formation of France.
Pronycticebus neglectus possessed what appears to be agrooming claw on the seconddigit of each foot like modernstrepsirhines (Fleagle, 1999) and had a dental formula of 2:1:4:3.Pronycticebus neglectus has apetrosal bulla and apostorbital bar.Pronycticebus neglectus may have been anocturnal or acrepuscularspecies, which is suggested by a relatively large orbital size.Pronycticebus neglectus has a relatively largebaculum for a species of its size, which had an averagebody mass of 825 grams.[citation needed]
Pronycticebus neglectus lived in Europe.[2]
Based upon limb morphology,Pronycticebus neglectus moved byquadrupedalism,leaping, and climbing. This species is less of a leaper than thenotharctines and used slow quadrupedalism less than theadapines.[3]
