Marcgodinotius
Marcgodinotius is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in Asia during the early Eocene. It is a monotypic genus, the only species being Marcgodinotius indicus. Another adapiform primate Suratius robustus was found in the same horizon. Anthrasimias may be a junior synonym of Marcgodinotius and Anthrasimias gujaratensis a junior synonym of Marcgodinotius indicus.
| Marcgodinotius Temporal range: Early Eocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
| Family: | †Notharctidae |
| Genus: | †Marcgodinotius Bajpai et al., 2005 |
| Species: | †M. indicus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Marcgodinotius indicus Bajpai et al., 2005 | |
Marcgodinotius indicus was a species of primate first found in Gujarat, India in 2005. It is believed to have lived about 55 million years ago, during the early Eocene. It weighed around 75 grams which would make it only slightly larger than the world's smallest primates, the mouse lemurs and the dwarf galagos.
The generic name, Anthrasimias, referred to anthra, Greek for coal, because the fossils were found in a coal mine and simias, Latin for monkey or ape.