Ashaninkacebus

Ashaninkacebus; Temporal range: Palaeogene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	† Eosimiidae
Genus:	† Ashaninkacebus
Species:	†A. simpsoni
Binomial name
	†Ashaninkacebus simpsoni; Marivaux et. al., 2023

Last updated August 15, 2025

Ashaninkacebus is an extinct genus of eosimiid that lived around the time of the Eocene-Oligocene transition.

Distribution

Fossils of A. simpsoni have been found in Western Amazonia.^[1]

References

↑ Marivaux, Laurent; Negri, Francisco R.; Antoine, Pierre-Olivier; Stutz, Narla S.; Condamine, Fabien L.; Kerber, Leonardo; Pujos, François; Ventura Santos, Roberto; Alvim, André M. V.; Hsiou, Annie S.; Bissaro, Marcos C.; Adami-Rodrigues, Karen; Ribeiro, Ana Maria (11 July 2023). "An eosimiid primate of South Asian affinities in the Paleogene of Western Amazonia and the origin of New World monkeys". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 120 (28): e2301338120. Bibcode:2023PNAS..12001338M. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2301338120 . ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 10334725 . PMID 37399374.

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[1] Marivaux, Laurent; Negri, Francisco R.; Antoine, Pierre-Olivier; Stutz, Narla S.; Condamine, Fabien L.; Kerber, Leonardo; Pujos, François; Ventura Santos, Roberto; Alvim, André M. V.; Hsiou, Annie S.; Bissaro, Marcos C.; Adami-Rodrigues, Karen; Ribeiro, Ana Maria (11 July 2023). "An eosimiid primate of South Asian affinities in the Paleogene of Western Amazonia and the origin of New World monkeys". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 120 (28): e2301338120. Bibcode:2023PNAS..12001338M. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2301338120 . ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 10334725 . PMID 37399374.

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