Caipora bambuiorum Cartelle & Hartwig, 1996
Giant spider monkey
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Protonym: Caipora bambuiorum Cartelle & Hartwig, 1996
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: c. 8,000 BC (estimate)
Distribution
Brazil
Biology & Ecology
A huge species of spider which became extinct at the end of the Pleistocene or the start of the Holocene, it is estimated to have weighed some 20kg or 75% more than the largest living atelines (Cartelle & Hartwig, 1996).
Hypodigm
Holotype: IGC-UFMG 05 ("nearly complete skeleton")
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Cartelle, Castor and Hartwig, Walter Carl. (1996). A new extinct primate among the Pleistocene megafauna of Bahia, Brazil. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 93: 6405-6409.
Other references:
Smith F.A., Lyons S.K., Ernest S.K.M., Jones K.E., Kaufman D.M., Dayan T., Marquet P.A., Brown J.H., Haskell J.P. (2003). Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84(12): 3403-3403.