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Notharctus

Notharctus is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in North America during the late to middle Eocene.

The body form of Notharctus is similar to that of modern lemurs. Its fingers were elongated for clamping onto branches, including the development of a thumb. Its spine is flexible and the animal was about in length, excluding the long tail.

There were at least four different Notharctus species. Fossils from at least seven other potential species have also been discovered.

Usage examples of "notharctus".

Even the development of language was driven, in part, by these pressures, as the specialized alarm cries that dated back to the forests of the notharctus slowly morphed into more flexible words.

But here in the forest canopy there were many adapids, cousins of the notharctus.

Every notharctus troop was hitting its brief mating season simultaneously, the timing dictated by the invisible chemical scents that permeated the air for kilometers around.

Although it was clumsier than the notharctus as it moved about in the trees, lacking a primate's grasping hands and feet, it was more than big enough to have fought off Noth.

But now they faced competition from other insectivores, the ancestors of hedgehogs and shrews—and from their own descendant forms like the notharctus.