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Cantius ✝

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Cantius is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in North America and Europe during the early Eocene.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantius, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4827730	https://www.gbif.org/species/4827730
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40754	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40754

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Primates : Notharctidae : Cantius

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
order	Primates	Linnaeus 1758
suborder	Strepsirrhini	Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
infraorder	Adapiformes	Hoffstetter 1977
superfamily	Adapoidea	Trouessart 1879
family	Notharctidae	Trouessart 1879
genus	Cantius	Simons & E.L. 1962

Scientific Name

Cantius Simons & E.L., 1962

Name Published In

Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Geol.) 7

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Cantius	genus	belongs to Adapidae	stated without evidence	Simons, 1962
Cantius	genus	subjective synonym of Pelycodus	implied	Robinson, 1968
Cantius	genus	subjective synonym of Pelycodus	stated without evidence	Gingerich and Simons, 1977
Cantius	genus	belongs to Adapidae	stated with evidence	Gingerich and Haskin, 1981
Cantius	genus	belongs to Cercamoniinae	stated without evidence	Franzen, 1994
Cantius	genus	belongs to Adapidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Cantius	genus	belongs to Notharctidae	stated with evidence	Rose et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

59.2 - 50.3 Ma
Paleogene

Last Recorded Appearance

46.2 - 40.4 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Mammalia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Primates)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. D. Gingerich and E. L. Simons. 1977. Systematics, phylogeny, and evolution of early Eocene Adapidae (Mammalia, Primates) in North America. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 24(22):245-279

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantius

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cantius eppsi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	59.2 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Cantius savagei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Cantius simonsi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Cantius torresi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Cantius venticolus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hesperolemur actius ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	46.2 Ma Eocene	46.2 Ma Eocene
Pelycodus abditus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		99	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Pelycodus angulatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Pelycodus frugivorus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		56	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Pelycodus mckennai ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		132	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Pelycodus nunienum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		25	55.8 Ma Eocene	50.3 Ma Eocene
Pelycodus ralstoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		23	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Pelycodus trigonodus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		26	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Protoadapis eppsi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1962	Cantius Simons
1981	Cantius Gingerich and Haskin
1994	Cantius Franzen p. 115
1995	Hesperolemur Gunnell
1997	Cantius McKenna and Bell
1997	Hesperolemur McKenna and Bell
2012	Cantius Rose et al.

References

Gingerich P. D., Simons E. L. (1977) Systematics, phylogeny, and evolution of early Eocene Adapidae (Mammalia, Primates) in North America, Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 24 22, 245-279

Gingerich P. D., Haskin R. A. (1981) Dentition of Early Eocene Pelycodus jarrovii (Mammalia, Primates) and the Generic Attribution of Species Formerly Referred to Pelycodus, Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 25 17, 327-337

Franzen J. L. (1994) The Messel Primates and Anthropoid Origins, Anthropoid Origins, J. G. Fleagle and R. F. Kay (eds.), Plenum Press, 99-122

Gunnell G. F. (1995) New notharctine (primates, adapiformes) skull from the Uintan (middle Eocene) of San Diego County, California, American Journal of Physical Anthropology 98, 447-470

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Rose K. D., Chew A. E., et al (2012) Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36, 1-122

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Geol.) 7 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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