A reappraisal of the European Eocene primate Periconodon

26 1 Sat, 01/01/1983 - 12:00 January 227 230

TATTERSALL, I., SCHWARTZ, J. H. 1983. A reappraisal of the European Eocene primate Periconodon. Palaeontology, 26, 1, 227–230.

Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey H. Schwartz The Eocene primate Periconodon has recently been widely regarded as belonging to the family Adapidae, and several authors have synonymized it with Anchomomys, another adapid. Re-examination of the type material of Periconodon has revealed that the genus is distinct, and that its affinities lie not with Adapidae but with the otherwise exclusively North American family Omomyidae. Periconodon contains only the type species, P. helveticus; recently named new species of Periconodon are wrongly assigned. The Palaeontological Association (Free Access)