| Heterohyus Temporal range: early to lateEocene | |
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| Heterohyus fossil from Messel Pit, at the Naturkundemuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Apatotheria |
| Family: | †Apatemyidae |
| Genus: | †Heterohyus Gervais, 1848 |
| Type species | |
| †Heterohyus nanus | |
Heterohyus is an extinct genus ofapatemyid from the early to lateEocene. A small, tree-dwelling creature with elongated fore- and middle fingers, in these regards it somewhat resembled a modern-dayaye-aye.
Three skeletons have been found at the early Eocene site atMessel Pit, Germany[1]
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