Panamacebus is an extinct genus of monkey known from the Early Miocene (Hemingfordian in the NALMA classification) of central Panama.[ Panamacebus at Fossilworks.org] Panamacebus transitus is the only and type species of this genus.
Description
Together with
Paralouatta from Cuba, it is the oldest known New World monkey of North America.
[Silvestro et al., 2017, p.14] Fossils of
Panamacebus, a left upper first molar and lower premolar,
[Bloch et al., 2016c, p.1] were uncovered from the Las Cascadas Formation, of which
were analyzed providing an age of 20.93 ± 0.17 Ma,
[Bloch et al., 2016b, p.6] of the Panama Canal Zone.
[Bloch et al., 2016a, p.243]
See also
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List of fossil primates of Central and South America
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