Excerpt from: “A Fossil owl monkey from La Venta, Colombia”
Aotus dindensis Setoguchi & Rosenberger
Diagnosis.
Differs from the living species of the genus Aotus
in the following combination of characters:
lower incisors smaller in absolute size
and in relation to cheek teeth;
P 3,4 metaconids smaller and less distinct;
premolar trigonids less elevated;
P 4 entoconid undifferentiated
and P 3,4 talonids weakly developed;
molar trigonids small
with metaconid displaced distally,
rather than broad and quadrate
with transverse cusps;
molar metaconids and its crests less prominent.
(see measurements in Table 1)
© 1992 Daniel X. O'Neil
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