Sungulusimias

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Sungulusimias
Temporal range: Eocene
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Eosimiidae
Genus: Sungulusimias
Species:
S. unayae
Binomial name
Sungulusimias unayae
Métais et al., 2023

Sungulusimias is an extinct genus of eosimiid primate that inhabited Turkey during the Eocene epoch. It contains the species S. unayae. [1]

References

  1. Métais, Grégoire; Coster, Pauline M. C.; Licht, Alexis; Ocakoğlu, Faruk; Beard, Kenneth Christopher (2023). "Additions to the late Eocene Süngülü mammal fauna in Easternmost Anatolia and the Eocene-Oligocene transition at the periphery of Balkanatolia". Comptes Rendus Palevol . 22 (35): 711–727. doi: 10.5852/cr-palevol2023v22a35 .