Name - Mesopithecus pentelicus Wagner 1839

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:4498396 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Mesopithecus pentelicus

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Recent Publications

• The pioneering paleoprimatologist Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major (1843-1923), and a Mesopithecus tooth from an unrecorded locality of Italy (?Casino Basin) in the Basel Naturhistorisches Museum, Switzerland.
• Mesopithecus pentelicus from the Turolian locality of Kryopigi (Kassandra, Chalkidiki, Greece).
• Late Turolian Mesopithecus (Mammalia: Cercopithecidae) from Axios Valley (Macedonia, Greece): earliest presence of M. monspessulanus in Europe.
• Mesopithecus pentelicus from Zhaotong, China, the easternmost representative of a widespread Miocene cercopithecoid species.

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Sherborn Index Animalium

• Gelehrte Anz. [bayer Akad.], VIII(38), Feb. 1839: 310. [Index Animalium Entry]

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