Marcgodinotius

Marcgodinotius
Temporal range: 56.0–47.8 Ma Early Eocene[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Strepsirrhini
Family: †Notharctidae
Genus: †Marcgodinotius
Bajpai et al., 2005
Species:
†M. indicus
Binomial name
†Marcgodinotius indicus
Bajpai et al., 2005

Marcgodinotius is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in Asia during the early Eocene.[2][3] It is a monotypic genus, the only species being Marcgodinotius indicus.[2] Another adapiform primate Suratius robustus was found in the same horizon.[4] Anthrasimias may be a junior synonym of Marcgodinotius and Anthrasimias gujaratensis a junior synonym of Marcgodinotius indicus.[5][6]

Marcgodinotius indicus was a species of primate first found in Gujarat, India in 2005. It is believed to have lived about 55 million years ago, during the early Eocene. It weighed around 75 grams which would make it only slightly larger than the world's smallest primates, the mouse lemurs and the dwarf galagos.[7]

The generic name, Anthrasimias, referred to anthra, Greek for coal, because the fossils were found in a coal mine and simias, Latin for monkey or ape.[7]

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  2. ^ a b Bajpai, Sunil; Kapur, Vivesh V.; Thewissen, J. G. M.; Das, Debasis P.; Tiwari, B. N.; Sharma, Ritu; Saravanan, N. (2005). "Early eocene primates from Vastan lignite mine, Gujarat, western India". Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India. 50 (2): 43–45. ISSN 0552-9360.
  3. ^ Fleagle 2013, pp. 237–238.
  4. ^ Bajpai, Sunil; Kapur, Vivesh V.; Das, Debasis P.; Tiwari, B. N. (2007). "New early eocene primate (Mammalia) from Vastan lignite Mine, District Surat (Gujarat), western India". Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India. 52 (2): 231–234. ISSN 0552-9360.
  5. ^ Dunn, Rachel H. (2016). "New euprimate postcrania from the early Eocene of Gujarat, India, and the strepsirrhine–haplorhine divergence". Journal of Human Evolution. 99: 25–51. Bibcode:2016JHumE..99...25D. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.06.006. PMID 27650579.
  6. ^ "Twenty-five little bones tell a puzzling story about early primate evolution: Newly discovered primate bones appear to be the most primitive ever found". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  7. ^ a b Bajpai, Sunil; et al. (2008). "The oldest Asian record of Anthropoidea" (PDF). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105 (32): 11093–11098. Bibcode:2008PNAS..10511093B. doi:10.1073/pnas.0804159105. PMC 2516236. PMID 18685095. Retrieved 2008-08-08.