Heterohyus

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Heterohyus

Heterohyus is an extinct genus of apatemyid from the early to late Eocene. A small, tree-dwelling creature with elongated fore- and middle fingers, in these regards it somewhat resembled a modern-day aye-aye.
Three skeletons have been found at the early Eocene site at Messel Pit, Germany[1]

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Heterohyus
Temporal range: early to late Eocene
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Heterohyus fossil from Messel Pit, at the Naturkundemuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Apatotheria
Family: Apatemyidae
Genus: Heterohyus
Gervais, 1848
Type species
Heterohyus nanus
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