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Acrecebus

Acrecebus is a prehistoric cebid monkey from the Late Miocene Solimões Formation of Acre State, Brazil and Bolivia. The only species known is A. fraileyi. This genus is closely related to the genus Cebus.

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Acrecebus
Temporal range: Late Miocene (Mayoan-Huayquerian)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Placentalia
Order: Primates
Family: Cebidae
Subfamily: Cebinae
Genus: †Acrecebus
Kay, 2006
Species:
†A. fraileyi
Binomial name
†Acrecebus fraileyi

Acrecebus is a prehistoric cebid monkey from the Late Miocene Solimões Formation of Acre State, Brazil and Bolivia.12 The only species known is A. fraileyi. This genus is closely related to the genus Cebus.3

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References

  1. Acrecebus at Fossilworks.org
  2. Kay RF & Cozzuol MA (2006). "New platyrrhine monkeys from the Solimões Formation (late Miocene, Acre State, Brazil)". Journal of Human Evolution. 50 (6): 673–686. Bibcode:2006JHumE..50..673K. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.01.002. PMID 16530809.
  3. Silvestro, Daniele; Tejedor, Marcelo F.; Serrano-Serrano, Martha L.; Loiseau, Oriane; Rossier, Victor; Rolland, Jonathan; Zizka, Alexander; Höhna, Sebastian; Antonelli, Alexandre; Salamin, Nicolas (2019), "Early Arrival and Climatically-Linked Geographic Expansion of New World Monkeys from Tiny African Ancestors", Systematic Biology, 68: 78–92, bioRxiv 10.1101/178111, doi:10.1093/sysbio/syy046, PMC 6292484