Pronycticebus
Extinct genus of primates
title: "Pronycticebus" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["cercamoniinae", "eocene-primates", "prehistoric-primate-genera", "eocene-france", "fossils-of-france", "quercy-phosphorites-formation", "eocene-germany", "fossils-of-germany", "fossil-taxa-described-in-1904"] description: "Extinct genus of primates" topic_path: "geography/france" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronycticebus" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Extinct genus of primates ::
| taxon = Pronycticebus | authority = G. Grandidier, 1904 | fossil_range = Early–Middle Eocene | type_species = †Pronycticebus gaudryi | type_species_authority = G. Grandidier, 1904 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = {{plainlist|
- P. gaudryi}} | synonyms =
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. A second species, P. neglectus, was moved to its own genus Godinotia in 2000.
References
- Conroy, G.C. 1990. Primate Evolution. W.W. Norton and Co.: New York.
- Martin, R.D. 1990. Primate Origins and Evolution: A Phylogenetic Reconstruction. Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey.
- http://www.aim.unizh.ch/StaffofInstitute/AffResearchers/uthal/Publications.html
- Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
Literature cited
References
- Thalmann, Urs. (1989). "Pronycticebus neglectus - an almost complete Adapid primate specimen from the Geiseltal (GDR)". Palaeovertebrata.
- Franzen, Jens Lorenz. (2000). "Der sechste Messel-Primate (Mammalia, Primates, Notharctidae, Cercamoniinae)". Senckenbergiana lethaea.
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