Cercamonius

{{Short description|Extinct genus of primates}}

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| taxon = Cercamonius brachyrhynchus

| extinct = yes

| parent_authority = Gingerich, 1975

| authority = Gingerich, 1975

| fossil_range = Late Eocene

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Cercamonius is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in Europe during the late Eocene.{{Sfn|Gebo|2002|p=28}} It was first described by Stehlin in 1912.{{cite book|last1=Hartwig|first1=Walter Carl|title=The Primate Fossil Record|date=2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521663151|page=28|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ezm1OA_s6isC&q=Cercamonius&pg=PA41|access-date=23 December 2017|language=en}} The genus is named after the Occitan poet Cercamon, one of the earliest troubadours.{{Cite journal|last=Gingerich|first=Philip Dean|date=1975|title="A new genus of Adapidae (Mammalia, Primates) from the Late Eocene of southern France, and its significance for the origin of higher primates"|url=|journal=Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan|volume=24|issue=15|pages=163–170|via=}}