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Description

Anchomomys is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in Europe and Africa during the middle Eocene.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchomomys, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4827755	https://www.gbif.org/species/4827755
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40752	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40752

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Primates : Adapidae : Anchomomys

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Primates : Notharctidae : Anchomomys

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
order	Primates	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Strepsirrhini	Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
infraorder	Adapiformes	Hoffstetter 1977
superfamily	Adapoidea	Trouessart 1879
family	Notharctidae	Trouessart 1879
subfamily	Cercamoniinae	Gingerich 1975
tribe	Anchomomyini	Szalay and Delson 1979
genus	Anchomomys	Stehlin 1916

Scientific Name

Anchomomys Stehlin, 1916

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Anchomomys	genus	belongs to Adapinae	stated with evidence	Simpson, 1940
Anchomomys	genus	belongs to Adapidae	stated without evidence	Gingerich, 1980
Anchomomys	genus	belongs to Adapinae	stated without evidence	Hooker, 1986
Anchomomys	genus	belongs to Cercamoniinae	stated without evidence	Franzen, 1994
Anchomomys	genus	belongs to Adapidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Anchomomys	genus	belongs to Anchomomyini	stated with evidence	Simons, 1997
Anchomomys	genus	belongs to Anchomomyini	stated without evidence	Marigó et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

48.6 - 41.3 Ma
Eocene

Last Recorded Appearance

33.9 - 28.1 Ma
Oligocene

Environment

terrestrial

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Primates)

Ecospace Comments

body mass assessed for specimens of Anchommoys quercyi

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchomomys

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Anchomomys (Fendantia) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)	2	47.8 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Anchomomys (Huerzeleris) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)	1	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Anchomomys frontanyensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Anchomomys gaillardi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	47.8 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Anchomomys latidens ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Anchomomys milleri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Anchomomys stehlini ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	48.6 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1916	Anchomomys Stehlin
1940	Anchomomys Simpson p. 202
1980	Anchomomys Gingerich p. 137
1983	Laurasia Schwartz and Tattersall p. 350
1986	Anchomomys Hooker p. 267
1994	Anchomomys Franzen p. 115
1997	Anchomomys McKenna and Bell
1997	Anchomomys Simons p. 181
2011	Anchomomys Marigó et al.

References

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Simpson G. G. (1940) Studies on the earliest primates, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 77 4, 185-212

Schwartz J. H., Tattersall I. (1983) A review of the European primate genus Anchomomys and some allied forms, Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History 57 5, 344-352

Hooker J. J. (1986) Mammals from the Bartonian (middle/late Eocene) of the Hampshire Basin, southern England, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 39 4, 191-478

Franzen J. L. (1994) The Messel Primates and Anthropoid Origins, Anthropoid Origins, J. G. Fleagle and R. F. Kay (eds.), Plenum Press, 99-122

Simons E. L. (1997) Discovery of the Smallest Fayum Egyptian Primates (Anchomomyini, Adapidae), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 94 1, 180-184

Marigó J., Minwer-Barakat R., et al (2011) New Anchomomys (Adapoidea, Primates) from the Robiacian (Middle Eocene) of northeastern Spain. Taxonomic and evolutionary implications, Journal of Human Evolution 60 5, 665-672 doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.12.006

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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