Agerinia

Agerinia; Temporal range: Early Eocene; ~48.6–40.4 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Strepsirrhini
Family:	†Notharctidae
Subfamily:	†Cercamoniinae
Genus:	†Agerinia; Crusafont-Pairo & Golpe-Posse 1973
Species
	A. roselli Crusafont-Pairo & Golpe-Posse 1973 (type); A. smithorum Femenias-Gual et al. 2016[1]; A. marandati Femenias-Gual et al. 2017[2];

Agerinia is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in Europe during the early Eocene.[3] Fossils have been found in the Grès d'Assignan, Lignites de Soissonais, and Calcare d'Agel Formations of France, the Corçà and Escanilla Formations of Spain and the Kuldana Formation of Pakistan.

References

Joan Femenias-Gual; Raef Minwer-Barakat; Judit Marigó; Salvador Moyà-Solà (2016). "Agerinia smithorum sp. nov., a new early Eocene primate from the Iberian Peninsula". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 161 (1): 116–124. doi:10.1002/ajpa.23014.
Joan Femenias-Gual; Raef Minwer-Barakat; Judit Marigó; Miquel Poyatos-Moré; Salvador Moyà-Solà (2017). "Agerinia marandati sp. nov., a new early Eocene primate from the Iberian Peninsula, sheds new light on the evolution of the genus Agerinia". PeerJ. 5: e3239. doi:10.7717/peerj.3239. PMC 5410143. PMID 28462042.
Gebo 2002, p. 27.

Gebo, D.L. (2002). "Adapiformes: Phylogeny and adaptation". In Hartwig, W.C. (ed.). The Primate Fossil Record. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-08141-2. OCLC 47254191.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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