| Panamacebus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Family: | Cebidae |
| Genus: | † Panamacebus Bloch et al. 2016 |
| Type species | |
| †Panamacebus transitus Bloch et al. 2016 | |
Panamacebus is an extinct genus of monkey known from the Early Miocene (Hemingfordian in the NALMA classification) of central Panama. [1] Panamacebus transitus is the only and type species of this genus.
Together with Paralouatta marianae from Cuba, it is the oldest known New World monkey of North America. [2] Fossils of Panamacebus, a left upper first molar and lower premolar, [3] were uncovered from the Las Cascadas Formation, of which tuffs were analyzed providing an age of 20.93 ± 0.17 Ma, [4] of the Panama Canal Zone. [5]
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