Panamacebus

Panamacebus is an extinct genus of monkey known from the Early Miocene (Hemingfordian in the NALMA classification) of central Panama.^[1] Panamacebus transitus is the only and type species of this genus.

Panamacebus Temporal range: Aquitanian (Hemingfordian) ~21.1–20.76 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Family:	Cebidae
Genus:	†Panamacebus Bloch et al. 2016
Type species
†Panamacebus transitus Bloch et al. 2016

Description

Together with Paralouatta marianae from Cuba, it is the oldest known New World monkey of North America.^[2] Fossils of Panamacebus, a left upper first molar and lower premolar,^[3] were uncovered from the Las Cascadas Formation, of which tuffs were analyzed providing an age of 20.93 ± 0.17 Ma,^[4] of the Panama Canal Zone.^[5]

See also

• Primates portal
• Paleontology portal
• Prehistoric mammals portal

• List of fossil primates of Central and South America