Canaanimico
| Canaanimico | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification (disputed) | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | †Homunculidae (see text) |
| Subfamily: | †Soriacebinae (see text) |
| Genus: | †Canaanimico Marivaux et al. 2016 |
| Type species | |
| †Canaanimico amazonensis Marivaux et al. 2016 | |
| Species | |
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C. amazonensis | |
Canaanimico is an extinct genus of medium-sized New World monkeys from the Late Oligocene (approximately 26.5 Ma, Deseadan in the SALMA classification) fossiliferous fluvio-lacustrine Chambira Formation of the Ucayali Basin in Amazonian Peru. The genus was described by Marivaux et al. in 2016 and the type species is C. amazonensis.