†Purgatoriidae
Purgatoriidae ist der Familienname von 10 Primaten, die ab dem frühen Paläogen (Paläozän) im Danium vor 66 Millionen Jahren bis 61,6 Millionen Jahren lebten. Viele Überreste wurden in Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA) gefunden.
Physiologie | |
---|---|
Gewicht: | ? |
Schwestertaxa | |
Literatur
L. M. Van Valen, R. E. Sloan 1965, The earliest primates. Science. 150:3697, p. 743 - 745L. M. Van Valen, R. E. Sloan 1994, The origin of the plesiadapid primates and the nature of Purgatorius. Evolutionary Monographs. 15:3697, p. 1 - 79
G. A. Buckley, R. E. Sloan 1997, A New Species of Purgatorius (Mammalia; Primatomorpha) from the Lower Paleocene Bear Formation, Crazy Mountains Basin, South-Central Montana. Journal of Paleontology. 71:1, p. - 79
R. C. Fox, C. S. Scott 2011, A new, early Puercan (earliest Paleocene) species of Purgatorius (Plesiadapiformes, Primates) from Saskatchewan, Canada. Journal of Paleontology. 85:3, p. 537 - 548
R. C. Fox, C. S. Scott, G. A. Buckley 2015, A ‘giant’ purgatoriid (Plesiadapiformes) from the Paleocene of Montana, USA: mosaic evolution in the earliest primates. Palaeontology. 58:2, p. 277 - 291, DOI: 10.1111/pala.12141
C. S. Scott, R. C. Fox, C. M. Redman 2016, A new species of the basal plesiadapiform Purgatorius (Mammalia, Primates) from the early Paleocene Ravenscrag Formation, Cypress Hills, southwest Saskatchewan, Canada: further taxonomic and dietary diversity in the earliest primates. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 53:2, p. 343 - 354, DOI: 10.1139/cjes-2015-0238
S. M. Smith, C. J. Sprain, W. A. Clemens, D.L. Lofgren, P. R. Renne, G. P. Wilson 2018, Early mammalian recovery after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: A high-resolution view from McGuire Creek area, Montana, USA\r\n. Geological Society America Bulletin. 130:11-12, p. 2000 - 2014, DOI: 10.1130/B31926
G. P. Wilson Mantilla, S. G. B. Chester, W. A. Clemens, J. R. Moore, C. J. Sprain, B. T. Hovatter, W. S. Mitchell, W. W. Mans, R. Mundil, P. R. Renne 2021, Earliest Palaeocene purgatoriids and the initial radiation of stem primates. Royal Society Open Science. 8:11-12, p. 210050:1 - 10, DOI: 10.1098/rsos.210050