Platyrrhini

New World monkeys are the five families of primates that are found in the tropical regions of Mexico, Central and South America: Callitrichidae, Cebidae, Aotidae, Pitheciidae, and Atelidae. The five families are ranked together as the Ceboidea, the only extant superfamily in the parvorder Platyrrhini.

Platyrrhini

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
monkeyPBDB
Sits inside
AnthropoideaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Primates
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Primates
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 158 occurrencesOligocene — about 7 of 158 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 113 of 158 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 158 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 158 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–27 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 8 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 9 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 13 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 27 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 15 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 16 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 9 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 34 occurrences27.3 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

158 occurrences of Platyrrhini 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

158 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

21 formations

Pinturas — 46.96°S, 70.61°WPinturas — 47.03°S, 70.67°WPinturas — 47.17°S, 70.21°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.47°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 50.16°S, 69.67°WSanta Cruz — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 50.60°S, 69.08°WSanta Cruz — 50.32°S, 68.90°WSanta Cruz — 51.05°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 50.95°S, 69.20°WSanta Cruz — 50.36°S, 71.84°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.22°WSanta Cruz — 50.05°S, 70.44°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.42°WVillavieja — 3.32°N, 75.08°WVillavieja — 3.33°N, 75.17°WVillavieja — 3.23°N, 75.18°WVillavieja — 3.23°N, 75.15°WLa Victoria — 3.27°N, 75.19°WLa Victoria — 2.12°N, 75.92°WLa Victoria — 3.66°N, 74.58°WLa Victoria — 3.30°N, 75.13°WLa Victoria — 3.37°N, 75.14°WSolimoes — 10.12°S, 66.88°WSolimoes — 10.93°S, 69.92°WSolimoes — 10.94°S, 69.34°WSarmiento — 43.28°S, 65.48°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.71°WSarmiento — 42.50°S, 68.52°WSarmiento — 44.59°S, 69.10°WCollón Cura — 40.39°S, 70.21°WSalla — 16.62°S, 67.28°WSalla — 17.18°S, 67.63°WSolimoes — 10.83°S, 69.83°WYahuarango — 9.49°S, 72.76°WPebas — 7.36°S, 74.96°WLagunitas — 21.62°N, 79.53°WAbanico — 34.20°S, 70.10°WRío Frias — 44.58°S, 71.22°WCerro Bandera — 39.03°S, 69.68°WChambira — 7.35°S, 74.95°WLas Cascadas — 9.06°N, 79.67°WMesa — 9.85°N, 63.33°WSolimões — 8.78°S, 68.90°WBala — 12.81°S, 71.39°WIpururo — 6.59°S, 76.31°W

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The named rock units Platyrrhini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 53 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Platyrrhini and its relatives

Miocene

Where Platyrrhini and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

731 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Platyrrhini, 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

83 references

Each of the 158 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. 71 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 content1

Picture of Platyrrhini

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Platyrrhini was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Geoffroy 1812)