Cebus
Gracile capuchin monkeys are capuchin monkeys in the genus Cebus. At one time all capuchin monkeys were included within the genus Cebus. In 2011, Jessica Lynch Alfaro et al. proposed splitting the genus between the robust capuchin monkeys, such as the tufted capuchin, and the gracile capuchins. The gracile capuchins retain the genus name Cebus, while the robust species have been transferred to Sapajus.
David M. Jensen ( Storkk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- capuchin monkeyPBDB
- Sits inside
- CebinaePBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, omnivorePBDB, for Cebidae
- Life habit
- arborealPBDB, for Cebidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 7.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.
5 occurrences of Cebus on record. 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
5 occurrences- Miocene20%
- Pliocene7%
- Pleistocene13%
- Holocene60%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Cebus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
153 taxa- Cuniculus paca3 sites
- Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus3 sites
- Didelphis marsupialis3 sites
- Eira barbara3 sites
- Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris3 sites
- Leopardus pardalis3 sites
- Oryzomys3 sites
- Pecari tajacu3 sites
- Puma concolor3 sites
- Puma yagouaroundi3 sites
- Sciurus3 sites
- Alouatta seniculus2 sites
- Aotus trivirgatus2 sites
- Bassaricyon gabbii2 sites
- Bradypus variegatus2 sites
- Choloepus hoffmanni2 sites
- Coendou prehensilis2 sites
- Cyclopes2 sites
- Dasyprocta2 sites
- Galictis vittata2 sites
- Heteromys2 sites
- Marmosa robinsoni2 sites
- Mazama americana2 sites
- Metachirus nudicaudatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cebus, 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
5 references- The first fossil Platyrrhini (Primates: Anthropoidea) from Venezuela: A capuchin monkey from the Plio-Pleistocene of El Breal de Orocual1
- Dental remains of cebid platyrrhines from the earliest late Miocene of Western Amazonia, Peru: Macroevolutionary implications on the extant capuchin and marmoset lineages1
- Barro Colorado Island and Tropical Biology1
- An Overview of Research at Cocha Cashu Biological Station1
- Density, Productivity, and Distribution of Mammals in Two Venezuelan Habitats1
Each of the 5 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. 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 Cebus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- David M. Jensen ( Storkk )
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cebus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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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What may have been alongside itCebinae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Erxleben 1777