#notharctus

[antiqueanimals]

Prehistoric Animals: The 1976 Childcraft Annual.

[markhors-menagerie]

†Notharctus tenebrosus

Art credit: WillemSvdMerwe

Some of the earliest primates were the Adapiformes, which emerged in the Eocene period more than 50 million years ago. Notharctus was one of these very early primates. It lived in and around what is now Utah, USA, which may seem like an odd place for a primate to be- until you consider that at the time it lived, the Earth was much warmer and wetter, with no permanent polar ice caps, and lush, warm forest would have covered much of what is now dry grassland and snowy boreal forest.

[paleotanks]

Notharctus in the trees, Lost Cabin, WY, Denver Museum of Nature and Science

[canis-goofus]

clueless

[asordidbarwere]

funney monkey man

[canis-goofus]

[canis-goofus]

kick it

--- they're playing this

[canis-goofus]

can't find nothin' to put in your buckets