Dolichocebus gaimanensis is the type species of Dolichocebus, an extinct genus of New World monkeys that lived in Argentine Patagonia. The fossils come from the Sarmiento Formation, and the genus is dated to roughly 21 to 17.5 million years ago, during the Early Miocene, in the stage that South American palaeontologists call the Colhuehuapian. As a New World monkey it belongs to the platyrrhine primates of the Americas, and it is grouped with the capuchin monkeys in the family Cebidae. It is known only from fossil remains.
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Cebidae, Taxa Source Paleobiology Database: Paleobiology Database taxon record for Dolichocebus gaimanensis
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Source Dolichocebus (Wikipedia)Lead, localityQuote, Lead, locality
that lived in Argentine Patagonia (Sarmiento Formation)
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1. Paleobiology Database: Paleobiology Database taxon record for Dolichocebus gaimanensis
Paleobiology DatabaseTaxon record, environment
"jev": "terrestrial"
Taxon record, diet (second value)
"jdt": "frugivore, omnivore"
Child Taxon Of: Cebidae, Taxon record, family
"fml": "Cebidae"
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Dolichocebus is an extinct New World monkey genus that lived in Argentine Patagonia (Sarmiento Formation)
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that lived in Argentine Patagonia (Sarmiento Formation)
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Dolichocebus is an extinct New World monkey genus that lived in Argentine Patagonia (Sarmiento Formation)
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