Notnamaia is a genus of primates that lived in Africa during the early middle Eocene. It contains one species, N. bogenfelsi. Its describers considered it to be an early simian, but other researchers have generally placed it within Strepsirrhini, possibly aligned with the djebelemurids[2] or caenopithecines.[3]

Notnamaia
Temporal range: Early Middle Eocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Strepsirrhini
Family: Djebelemuridae
Genus: Notnamaia
Pickford & Uhen, 2014
Species:
N. bogenfelsi
Binomial name
Notnamaia bogenfelsi
(Pickford et al., 2008)
Synonyms
  • Namaia bogenfelsi
    Pickford et al., 2008 (Preoccupied)[1]

References

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  1. ^ Pickford, M.; Uhen, M. D. (2014). "Namaia Pickford et al., 2008, preoccupied by Namaia Green, 1963: proposal of a replacement name" (PDF). Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia. 15: 91.
  2. ^ Fleagle 2013, p. 232.
  3. ^ Godinot, M.; Senut, B.; Pickford, M. (2018). "Primitive Adapidae from Namibia sheds light on the early primate radiation in Africa" (PDF). Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia. 18: 140–162.

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