Pronycticebus
Extinct genus of primates
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Pronycticebus was a genus of adapiform primates that lived during the early to middle Eocene. It is represented by Pronycticebus gaudryi, from the Quercy Phosphorites Formation of France.[1] A second species, P. neglectus,[2] was moved to its own genus Godinotia in 2000.[3]
| Pronycticebus Temporal range: Early–Middle Eocene | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
| Family: | †Notharctidae |
| Subfamily: | †Cercamoniinae |
| Genus: | †Pronycticebus G. Grandidier, 1904 |
| Type species | |
| †Pronycticebus gaudryi G. Grandidier, 1904 | |
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