In Depth
Teilhardina is a genus of small primate that is known to have existed during the early Eocene. Perceived to have been similar to a marmoset, fossils of Teilhardina have been reported from Belgium, France and China, but are particularly common from the USA.
Further Reading
- Early Eocene Teilhardina brandti: oldest omomyid primate from North America. - Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 28(13):321-326. - P. D. Gingerich - 1993. - A euprimate skull from the early Eocene of China. - Nature 427:65-68 - X. -J. Ni, Y.-Q. Wang, Y.-M. Hu & C.-K. Li - 2004. - 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. - T. Smith, K. D. Rose & P. D. Gingerich - 2006. - The oldest North American primate and mammalian biogeography during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (10): 3815. - K. C. Beard - 2008. – New fossils, systematics, and biogeography of the oldest known crown primate Teilhardina from the earliest Eocene of Asia, Europe, and North America. – Journal of Human Evolution. – Paul E. Morse, Stephen G.B. Chester, Doug M. Boyer, Thierry Smith, Richard Smith, Paul Gigase & Jonathan I. Bloch – 2018.
