Teilhardina

Teilhardina[1][2]
Temporal range: 56–47 Ma Early Eocene - Middle Eocene
Teilhardina belgica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Family: †Omomyidae
Subfamily: †Anaptomorphinae
Tribe: †Anaptomorphini
Genus: †Teilhardina
Simpson, 1940
Species
  • †Teilhardina belgica (Teilhard de Chardin, 1927) (type)
  • †Teilhardina brandti Gingerich, 1993
  • †Teilhardina demissa Rose, 1995
  • †Teilhardina tenuicula (Jepsen, 1930)
  • †Teilhardina asiatica Ni, Wang, Hu, and Li, 2004
  • †Teilhardina magnoliana Beard, 2008

Teilhardina (/taɪhɑːrˈdiːnə/, teye-har-DEE-nuh)[3] was an early marmoset-like primate that lived in Europe, North America and Asia during the Early Eocene epoch, about 56-47 million years ago.[1][4] The paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson is credited with naming it after the French paleontologist, Jesuit and philosopher Teilhard de Chardin.

  1. ^ a b Beard, K.C. (2008). "The oldest North American primate and mammalian biogeography during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105 (10): 3815–8. Bibcode:2008PNAS..105.3815B. doi:10.1073/pnas.0710180105. PMC 2268774. PMID 18316721.
  2. ^ Tornow, M.A. (2008). "Systematic analysis of the Eocene primate family Omomyidae using gnathic and postcranial data". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 49 (1): 43–129. doi:10.3374/0079-032X(2008)49[43:SAOTEP]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 86262940.
  3. ^ "Oldest-known ancestor of modern primates may have come from North America, not Asia". Heritage Daily. 30 November 2018.
  4. ^ Smith, T.; Rose, K.D.; Gingerich, P.D. (2006). "Rapid Asia-Europe-North America geographic dispersal of earliest Eocene primate Teilhardina during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103 (30): 11223–7. Bibcode:2006PNAS..10311223S. doi:10.1073/pnas.0511296103. PMC 1544069. PMID 16847264.