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
Original scientific description:
Lund, Peter. (1838). Blik paa Brasiliens dyreverden for sidste jordomvaeltning. Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Naturvidenskabelige og Mathematiske Afhandlinger 8, pp. 61-144.
Other references:
Auler, A. S., Piló, L. B., Smart, P. L., Wang, X., Hoffmann, D., Richards, D. A., Edwards, R. L., Neves, W. A. and Cheng H. (2006). U-series dating and taphonomy of Quaternary vertebrates from Brazilian caves. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 240(3-4): 508-522.
Cartelle, C. and 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. / London: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Hartwig, W. C. and Cartelle, C. (1996). A complete skeleton of the giant South American primate Protopithecus. Nature 381(6580): 307-311. https://doi.org/10.1038/381307a0
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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