Canaanimico
Single-species extinct genus of monkeys / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Canaanimys.
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Canaanimico | |
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Scientific classification (disputed) | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | †Homunculidae (see text)[1][2] |
Subfamily: | †Soriacebinae (see text)[3][2] |
Genus: | †Canaanimico Marivaux et al. 2016 |
Type species | |
†Canaanimico amazonensis Marivaux et al. 2016 | |
Species | |
C. amazonensis |
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Canaanimico is an extinct genus of medium-sized New World monkeys from the Late Oligocene (approximately 26.5 Ma, Deseadan in the SALMA classification) fossiliferous fluvio-lacustrine Chambira Formation of the Ucayali Basin in Amazonian Peru. The genus was described by Marivaux et al. in 2016 and the type species is C. amazonensis.[3][4]