Teilhardina

Teilhardina
Temporal range: Early Eocene - Middle Eocene
Teilhardina belgica
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Family: †Omomyidae
Subfamily: †Anaptomorphinae
Tribe: †Anaptomorphini
Genus: †Teilhardina
Simpson, 1940
Species
  • †Teilhardina belgica (Teilhard de Chardin, 1927) (type)
  • †Teilhardina brandti Gingerich, 1993
  • †Teilhardina demissa Rose, 1995
  • †Teilhardina tenuicula (Jepsen, 1930)
  • †Teilhardina asiatica Ni, Wang, Hu, and Li, 2004
  • †Teilhardina magnoliana Beard, 2008

Teilhardina (/taɪhɑːrˈdiːnə/, teye-har-DEE-nuh) is an extinct marmoset-like omomyid primate that lived in Europe, North America and Asia during the Early Eocene epoch, about 56-47 million years ago. The paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson named it after the French paleontologist, Jesuit and philosopher Teilhard de Chardin.

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