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Nesomomys

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Nesomomys
Temporal range: Eocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Family: Omomyidae
Genus: Nesomomys
Beard et. al., 2021
Species:
N. bunodens
Binomial name
Nesomomys bunodens
Beard et. al., 2021

Nesomomys is an extinct genus of omomyid that inhabited Turkey during the Eocene epoch. It is a monotypic genus known from a single species, N. bunodens.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Beard, K. Christopher; Métais, Grégoire; Ocakoğlu, Faruk; Licht, Alexis (July 2021). "An omomyid primate from the Pontide microcontinent of north-central Anatolia: Implications for sweepstakes dispersal of terrestrial mammals during the Eocene". Geobios. 66–67: 143–152. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2020.06.008. Retrieved 2 January 2025 – via Elsevier Science Direct.