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Agerinia

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Agerinia
Temporal range: Early Eocene
~54.3–40.4 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this 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]
  • A. yaminae Godinot, 2026[3]

Agerinia is a genus of adapiform primate known from Early Eocene fossils found in Europe.[4] Fossils have been found in the Grès d'Assignan, Lignites de Soissonais, Calcare d'Agel Formatios, and "Sables Bleutés du Haut-Var" formations of France, the Corçà and Escanilla formations of Spain, and the Kuldana Formation of Pakistan.

References

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  1. ↑ 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. PMID 27306700.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Tabuce, Rodolphe; Philip, Jean; Angst, Delphine; Amiot, Romain; Buffetaut, Eric; Bronnert, Constance; Claude, Julien; Del Rio, Cédric; Gernelle, Killian; Giner, Stephen; de Lapparent de Broin, France; Lemierre, Alfred; Closas, Carles Martin; Popescu, Speranta-Maria; Tong, Haiyan (2026-10-06). "Early Eocene vertebrate diversity of the Rians syncline (Provence, southern France): systematics, biostratigraphy, palaeoenvironments, palaeobiogeography, and new insights into the earliest diversified primate fauna in Europe". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. doi:10.1007/s12549-026-00728-y. ISSN 1867-1594.
  4. ↑ Gebo 2002, p. 27.

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