Pronycticebus

Pronycticebus
Temporal range: Middle Late Eocene
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Strepsirrhini
Family: Notharctidae
Subfamily: Cercamoniinae
Genus: Pronycticebus
G. Grandidier, 1904
Type species
Pronycticebus gaudryi
G. Grandidier, 1904
Species
  • P. gaudryi
  • P. neglectus

Pronycticebus was a genus of adapiformes primates that lived during the middle to middle late Eocene. It is represented by two species, Pronycticebus gaudryi and Pronycticebus neglectus, of which an almost complete specimen was found in Germany, and the Quercy Phosphorites Formation of France.