Heterohyus
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Heterohyus is an extinct genus of apatemyid from the early to late Eocene. A small, tree-dwelling creature with elongated fore- and middle fingers, in these regards it somewhat resembled a modern-day aye-aye.
Three skeletons have been found at the early Eocene site at Messel Pit, Germany[1]
References
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- ↑ Schaal & Ziegler (1992), pp. 174-177.
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Bibliography
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- McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. Template:ISBN
- Morlo, Michael et al. An annotated taxonomic list of the Middle Eocene (MP11) Vertebratae of Messel gives as author: Teilhard de Chardin, 1921 - please refer to footnote 88.
- Kenneth David Rose. The Beginning of the Age of Mammals. JHU Press, 2006, Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN, 428 pp. gives as author: Koenigswald, 1990
- Schaal, Stephan, & Ziegler, Willi (eds) 1992. Messel. An insight into the history of life on Earth. Clarendon Press, Oxford. Template:ISBN.