Cebidae

The Cebidae are one of the five families of New World monkeys now recognised. Extant members are the capuchin and squirrel monkeys. These species are found throughout tropical and subtropical South and Central America.

Cebidae

David M. Jensen ( Storkk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlatyrrhiniPBDB
Diet
frugivore, omnivorePBDB
Life habit
arborealPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 21 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 4 of 44 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 27 of 44 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 44 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 44 occurrencesPleistocene30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.0–8.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.0–7.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.0–6.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.0–5.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.0–4.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.0–3.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.0–2.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.0–1.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.0–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences21 Mya11.7 ka30.1 Mya0 Mya

44 occurrences of Cebidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

44 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

11 formations

Villavieja — 3.32°N, 75.08°WVillavieja — 3.33°N, 75.17°WVillavieja — 3.23°N, 75.18°WSolimoes — 10.12°S, 66.88°WSolimoes — 10.94°S, 69.34°WSalla — 16.62°S, 67.28°WSalla — 17.18°S, 67.63°WSarmiento — 43.28°S, 65.48°WSarmiento — 42.50°S, 68.52°WLa Victoria — 3.66°N, 74.58°WLa Victoria — 3.30°N, 75.13°WPebas — 7.36°S, 74.96°WCollón Cura — 40.39°S, 70.21°WSolimoes — 10.83°S, 69.83°WLas Cascadas — 9.06°N, 79.67°WMesa — 9.85°N, 63.33°WIpururo — 6.59°S, 76.31°W

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The named rock units Cebidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cebidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cebidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

399 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Cebidae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

30 references

Each of the 44 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 18 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Cebidae

Credit
David M. Jensen ( Storkk )
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Chimper
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPlatyrrhini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Savage 1951