Heterohyus

Heterohyus Temporal range: early to late Eocene
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]

References

1. Schaal & Ziegler (1992), pp. 174-177.

Bibliography

• McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN   0-231-11013-8
• Morlo, Michael et al. An annotated taxonomic list of the Middle Eocene (MP11) Vertebratae of Messel gives as author: Teilhard de Chardin, 1921 - please refer to footnote 88.
• Kenneth David Rose. The Beginning of the Age of Mammals. JHU Press, 2006, ISBN   0-8018-8472-1, ISBN   978-0-8018-8472-6, 428 pp. gives as author: Koenigswald, 1990
• Schaal, Stephan, & Ziegler, Willi (eds) 1992. Messel. An insight into the history of life on Earth. Clarendon Press, Oxford. ISBN   0 19854654 8.

External links

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