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Micodon
Temporal range: Middle Miocene (Laventan)
~13.8–11.8 Ma

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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Callitrichidae
Genus: Micodon
Setoguchi & Rosenberger 1985[1]
Species:
M. kiotensis
Binomial name
Micodon kiotensis

Setoguchi and Rosenberger 1985

Micodon is an extinct genusofNew World monkeys from the Middle Miocene (Laventan in the South American land mammal ages; 13.8 to 11.8 Ma). Its remains have been found at the Konzentrat-LagerstätteofLa Venta in the Honda GroupofColombia. The type speciesisM. kiotensis,[2] a very small monkey among the New World species.[3]

Description

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Fossils of Micodon were discovered in the La Victoria Formation, that has been dated to the Laventan, about 13.5 Ma. Micodon is the smallest primate found in the La Venta fauna, and within size range of Saguinus and Callithrix. It differs from most callitrichines in the generally low-relief morphological pattern, large size of the talon basin, and particularly, the considerably large size of hypocone. The morphology and position of the hypocone is distinctly different from the conditions found in such genera as Callimico and Saimiri. By comparison with Micodon, the hypocone is far smaller in Callimico, where it appears as an excrescence of the lingual cingulum. This cusp is more developed in Saimiri. Overall, the Micodon M1 shows some gross resemblances to certain Saguinus, although none of the specimens examined hardly approach this fossil in hypocone development.[4]

Micodon is clearly within the size range of living marmosets but is well below the size range of larger marmosets, such as Callimico goeldii and Leontopithecus chrysopygus. Since the callitrichines are probably a modified radiation that underwent their major diversification at a small body size, it is considered very likely that Micodon is a marmoset. The Micodon M1 suggests that body size/tooth size reduction preceded the loss of the hypocone cusp. It has been argued that the combination of tricuspid molars and small size literally define a marmoset phyletically. On the other hand, Callimico is a four-cusped ceboid whose anatomy suggests that it is cladistically closest to the tricuspid marmosets, and alternative schemes of platyrrhine phylogeny place the four-cusped cebines, Cebus and Saimiri, as the sister-taxon of the entire group. The upshot of these latter views is that a four-cusped molar would be fully expectable in small, ancestral callitrichine, and even in callitrichin sister-group.[5] The upper first molar (M1) with a subtriangular outline with a narrow lingual side resembles that of the oldest New World primate discovered to date, the Late Eocene Perupithecus from the Peruvian Amazon.[6]

It has been suggested the specimens ascribed to Micodon, smaller than Aotus dindensis,[7] may actually be deciduous teeth of another primate species found at La Venta such as Saimiri annectensorS. fieldsi.[8] More material is needed for a better description of the genus.[9]

A body mass of 400 grams (0.88 lb) has been estimated for Micodon.[10]

Habitat

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The Honda Group, and more precisely the "Monkey Beds", are the richest site for fossil primates in South America.[11] From the same level as where Micodon has been found, also fossils of Cebupithecia, Mohanamico, Saimiri annectens, Saimiri fieldsi and Stirtonia have been uncovered.[12][13] It has been argued that the monkeys of the Honda Group were living in habitat that was in contact with the Amazon and Orinoco Basins, and that La Venta itself was probably seasonally dry forest.[14] The evolutionary separation from AotusofMicodon has been placed in the Early Miocene at 17.5 Ma.[15]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ T. Setoguchi and A. Rosenberger. 1985. Miocene marmosets; first fossil evidence. International Journal of Primatology 6(6):615-625
  • ^ Micodon kiotensisatFossilworks.org
  • ^ Tejedor, 2013, p.29
  • ^ Setoguchi et al., 1986, p.764
  • ^ Setoguchi et al., 1986, p.766
  • ^ Bond et al., 2015, p.538
  • ^ Gebo et al., 1990, p.738
  • ^ Wheeler, 2010, p.133
  • ^ Defler, 2004, p.32
  • ^ Silvestro et al., 2017, p.14
  • ^ Rosenberger & Hartwig, 2001, p.3
  • ^ Luchterhand et al., 1986, p.1753
  • ^ Setoguchi et al., 1986, p.762
  • ^ Lynch Alfaro et al., 2015, p.520
  • ^ Takai et al., 2001, p.304
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