Carpolestes
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Carpolestes is a genus of extinct primate-like mammals from the late Paleocene of North America. It first existed around 58 million years ago. The three species of Carpolestes appear to form a lineage, with the earliest occurring species, C. dubius, ancestral to the type species, C. nigridens, which, in turn, was ancestral to the most recently occurring species, C. simpsoni.[1]
Carpolestes had flattened fingernails on its feet but with claws on its fingers.[2] Morphologically it supports Robert Sussman's theory[3] of the co-evolution of tropical fruiting Angiosperms and early primates where Angiosperms provide nectar and fruits in return for dispersing the seed for tropical rainforest plants. It appears to have been a distant relative of the Plesiadapiforms such as Plesiadapis.
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- ↑ Helen Pilcher "Flower Child" in New Scientist, The Collection, The Human Story (2014)
- ↑ Sussman, Robert “Primate origins and the Evolution of Angiosperms” in American Journal of Primatology Vol 23, No.4 (1991) pp209-223
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- Plesiadapiformes
- Prehistoric placental genera
- Eocene primates
- Ypresian life
- Thanetian life
- Wasatchian
- Clarkforkian
- Paleocene mammals of North America
- Fossils of the United States
- Paleontology in Montana
- Paleontology in Wyoming
- Fossil taxa described in 1928
- Taxa named by George Gaylord Simpson