Pachylemur jullyi is the second known species of the extinct Pachylemur, a giant lemur of Madagascar most closely related to the living ruffed lemurs. Remains of the genus were first described in 1895 by the French zoologist Henri Filhol, and the species is known from subfossil material. It was robust and several times larger than a ruffed lemur, and its teeth show it ate mainly fruit, so it served as a seed disperser in the forests and spiny thickets where it lived. It disappeared after humans arrived on the island, and the genus is thought to have gone extinct between 680 and 960 CE. Some doubt remains whether the two species are distinct.
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Like other lemurs, Pachylemur was only found on the island of Madagascar
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Pachylemur is thought to have gone extinct between 680 and 960 CE
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Pachylemur was likely a fruit specialist, just like the closely related ruffed lemurs
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its subfossil remains have been found primarily at sites in the central and southwestern parts of the island
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Habitat loss, forest fragmentation, and bushmeat hunting are thought to have been the reasons for its disappearance.
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Like other lemurs, Pachylemur was only found on the island of Madagascar
Anatomy and physiology, activity pattern
Pachylemur was probably diurnal as well
In Ecosystem: Madagascar Subhumid Forests, Distribution and habitat
and the subhumid forests of the central highlands (P. jullyi)
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are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion
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