Tremacebus is an extinct genus of New World monkeys from the Early Miocene (Colhuehuapian in the SALMA classification). The type species is T. harringtoni.

Description

Tremacebus was about in length, and would have resembled a modern night monkey, to which it may have been related, though possibly a stem aotid. However, its eyes appear to have been smaller than the modern species, CT scans of the cranium suggest a relatively small olfactory bulb and poor sense of smell, compared with night monkeys. These features suggest that it may not have been nocturnal. It had an estimated body mass of .

Tremacebus

Only a few fossils have been found, including a skull from the Sarmiento Formation, Patagonia.

Tremacebus

References

External links

Mikko's Phylogeny Archive

Prehistoric monkeys

Monotypic prehistoric primate genera

Prehistoric primate genera

Miocene primates of South America

Colhuehuapian

Neogene Argentina

Fossils of Argentina

Fossil taxa described in 1974

Golfo San Jorge Basin

Sarmiento Formation

Tremacebus