Teilhardina
Name:
Teilhardina.
Phonetic: Tee-il-har-deen-ah.
Named By: Simpson - 1940.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia, Primates,
Haplorrhini, Omomyidae.
Species: T. belgica (type),
T. crassidens,
T. americana, T. brandti, T. demissa, T. tenuicula,
T. asiatica, T. magnoliana.
Diet: Insectivore?
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: China, USA and Western Europe.
Time period: Ypresian of the Eocene.
Fossil representation: Many individuals, though
often of teeth and jaws.
Teilhardina is a genus of small primate that is known to have existed during the early Eocene. Perceived to have been similar to a marmoset, fossils of Teilhardina have been reported from Belgium, France and China, but are particularly common from the USA.
Further reading
- Early Eocene Teilhardina brandti: oldest
omomyid primate from
North America. - Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology,
University of Michigan 28(13):321-326. - P. D.
Gingerich - 1993.
- A euprimate skull from the early Eocene of China. - Nature
427:65-68 - X. -J. Ni, Y.-Q. Wang, Y.-M. Hu &
C.-K. Li - 2004.
- Rapid Asia-Europe-North America geographic dispersal of earliest
Eocene primate Teilhardina during the
Paleocene-Eocene Thermal
Maximum. - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103
(30): 11223. - T. Smith, K. D. Rose & P.
D. Gingerich - 2006.
- The oldest North American primate and mammalian biogeography during
the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. - Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences 105 (10): 3815. - K. C. Beard -
2008.
- New fossils, systematics, and biogeography of the oldest known crown
primate Teilhardina from the earliest Eocene of Asia, Europe, and North
America. - Journal of Human Evolution. - Paul E. Morse, Stephen G.B.
Chester, Doug M. Boyer, Thierry Smith, Richard Smith, Paul Gigase
& Jonathan I. Bloch - 2018.
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