Panamacebus is an extinct genus of monkey known from the Early Miocene (Hemingfordian in the NALMA classification) of central Panama.Panamacebus at Fossilworks.org Panamacebus transitus is the only and type species of this genus.
Description Together with Paralouatta marianae from Cuba, it is the oldest known New World monkey of North America.Silvestro et al., 2017, p.14 Fossils of Panamacebus, a left upper first molar and lower premolar,Bloch et al., 2016c, p.1 were uncovered from the Las Cascadas Formation, of which tuffs were analyzed providing an age of 20.93 ± 0.17 Ma,Bloch et al., 2016b, p.6 of the Panama Canal Zone.Bloch et al., 2016a, p.243
See also
List of fossil primates of Central and South America
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