Heterohyus Temporal range: early to late Eocene | |
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Heterohyus fossil from Messel Pit, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | † Apatotheria |
Family: | † Apatemyidae |
Genus: | † Heterohyus Gervais, 1848 |
Type species | |
†Heterohyus nanus |
Heterohyus is an extinct genus of apatemyid from the early to late Eocene. A small, tree-dwelling creature with elongated fore- and middle fingers, in these regards it somewhat resembled a modern-day aye-aye.
Three skeletons have been found at the early Eocene site at Messel Pit, Germany [1]
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