| Mahgarita Temporal range: Late Eocene
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
| Family: | †Adapidae |
| Genus: | †Mahgarita Wilson & Szalay, 1976 |
| Species: | †M. stevensi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Mahgarita stevensi Wilson & Szalay, 1976
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Mahgarita stevensi is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in North America during the late Eocene. Fossils of the genus were found in the Duchesnean Laredo and Devil's Graveyard Formations of Texas.
References
Bibliography
- Gebo, D.L. (2002). "Adapiformes: Phylogeny and adaptation". In Hartwig, W.C. (ed.). The Primate Fossil Record. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-08141-2. OCLC 47254191.
