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Mesopropithecus dolichobrachion Simons et al., 1995

Sloth lemur

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: c.600 AD

 

Distribution

Madagascar

 

Biology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Simons, E.L.; Godfrey, L.R.; Jungers, W.L.; Chatrath, P.S.; Ravaoarisoa, J. (1995). A new species of Mesopropithecus (Primates, Palaeopropithecidae) from Northern Madagascar. International Journal of Primatology 15(5): 653-682.

 

Other references:

Crowley, Brooke Erin, Godfrey, Laurie Rohde and Samonds, Karen Elizabeth. (2023). What can hippopotamus isotopes tell us about past distributions of C4 grassy biomes on Madagascar? Plants, People, Planet. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10402

Jungers, W.L., Demes, B. & Godfrey, L.R. 2008 How big were the "giant" extinct lemurs of Madagascar? In Elwyn Simons: a search for origins (ed. J.G. Fleagle & C.C. Gilbert), pp. 343-360. New York: Springer.

Jungers, W.L., Godfrey, L.R., Simons, E.L., Chatrath, P.S. & Rakotosamimanana, B. 1991 Phylogenetic and functional affinities of Babakotia (Primates), a fossil lemur from northern Madagascar. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 88, 9082-9086.

Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). Holocene mammal extinctions, pp. 41-61. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.

Turvey, Samuel T. and Fritz, Susanne A. (2011). The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 366(1577): 2564-2576. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0020 [Supplementary Information]

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