Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 43689

Full reference: T. M. Bown and K. D. Rose. 1987. Patterns of Dental Evolution in Early Eocene Anaptomorphine Primates (Omomyidae) from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Paleontological Society Memoir 23:1-162

Belongs to Absarokius according to T. M. Bown and K. D. Rose 1987

Sister taxa: Absarokius abbotti, Absarokius metoecus

Type specimen: UW 1644, a mandible (mandibular fragment with p3-m3 and alveoli anterior to p3). Its type locality is UW V-58003, which is in a Wasatchian terrestrial horizon in the Wasatch Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: scansorial insectivore

Average measurements (in mm): m1 2.29 x 1.85