Protopithecus brasiliensis Lund, 1838
Brazilian monkey
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene/Holocene
Distribution
Brazil
Biology
Hypodigm
UZM 82 (left proximal femur)
UZM 3530 (right distal humerus)
Media
References
Auler A.S., Piló L.B., Smart P.L., Wang X., Hoffmann D., Richards D.A., Edwards R.L., Neves W.A., Cheng H. (2006). U-series dating and taphonomy of Quaternary vertebrates from Brazilian caves. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 240(3-4): 508-522.
Cartelle C., Hartwig W.C. 1996 A new extinct primate among the Pleistocene megafauna of Bahia, Brazil. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 93(13), 6405-6409.
Groves, C. 2001 Primate taxonomy. Washington, D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Hartwig, W.C. & Cartelle, C. 1996 A complete skeleton of the giant South American primate Protopithecus. Nature 381, 307-311.
The Primate Fossil Record, By Walter Carl Hartwig
Primate Adaptation and Evolution, By John G. Fleagle
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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