Carpolestes is a genus of extinct primate-like mammals from the late Paleocene of North America. It first existed around 58 million years ago.

Plesiadapiform: Carpolestes: images also on p. 385 In 2002, researchers reported the discovery of a partial skeleton from the genus Carpolestes. It lived in North America around 56 mya. Select the traits that Carpolestes shares with other plesiadapiforms.

Nov 28, 2012 · An artist’s rendering of Carpolestes, an early primate relative that lived in North America 56 million years ago. Carpolestes fossils indicate early primates co-evolved with flowering plants.

Carpolestidae is a family of primate-like Plesiadapiformes that were prevalent in North America and Asia from the mid Paleocene through the early Eocene. Typically, they are characterized by two large upper posterior premolars and one large lower posterior premolar. They weighed about 20-150g, and were about the size of a mouse.

Carpolestes is a genus of extinct primate-like mammals from the late Paleocene of North America. It first existed around 58 million years ago. The three species...

May 20, 2017 · A new and phylogenetically basal species of Carpolestes, the youngest and most derived genus of the plesiadapoid family Carpolestidae in North America, is described from a late Tiffanian (Ti-5) site in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA.

Carpolestes simpsoni is an extinct species of Plesiadapiforms, late species of Carpolestes which is one of the earliest primate-like mammals appearing in the fossil record during the late Paleocene. C. simpsoni had grasping digits but no forward-facing eyes.

Carpolestes is a very early primate, but it has features that set it apart from the most primitive primates of all, including a nail rather than a claw on its big toe. Its closest living analogue...

Nov 22, 2002 · Carpolestes is known from the late Paleocene epoch (65 to 55 million years ago) of Wyoming, where such trees are also found. Carpolestes has a grasping foot that shares several features with that of modern primates (euprimates), including an opposable big toe with a nail rather than a claw.

Carpolestes is a small North American late Paleocene mammal with distinctively specialized premolar teeth. P3 is polycuspate with a distinct anteroexternal extension, and P4 is high-crowned, bladelike, and multicuspate. Carpolestes is now known from at least 180 specimens representing four morphologically and stratigraphically distinct species.