Heterohyus
{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}
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| fossil_range = early to late Eocene
| image = Heterohyus 4939.jpg
| image_caption= Heterohyus fossil from Messel Pit, at the Naturkundemuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany
| taxon = Heterohyus
| authority = Gervais, 1848
| type_species = †Heterohyus nanus
}}
Heterohyus is an extinct genus of apatemyid from the early to late Eocene. A small, tree-dwelling creature with elongated fore- and middle fingers, in these regards it somewhat resembled a modern-day aye-aye.
Three skeletons have been found at the early Eocene site at Messel Pit, GermanySchaal & Ziegler (1992), pp. 174-177.
References
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= Bibliography =
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- McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. {{ISBN|0-231-11013-8}}
- [http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/abteilung/terrzool/ornithologie/morlo_et_al.pdf Morlo, Michael et al. An annotated taxonomic list of the Middle Eocene (MP11) Vertebratae of Messel] gives as author: Teilhard de Chardin, 1921 - please refer to footnote 88.
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=3bs0D5ix4VAC&dq=heterohyus&pg=PP1 Kenneth David Rose. The Beginning of the Age of Mammals. JHU Press, 2006], {{ISBN|0-8018-8472-1}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8018-8472-6}}, 428 pp. gives as author: Koenigswald, 1990
- Schaal, Stephan, & Ziegler, Willi (eds) 1992. Messel. An insight into the history of life on Earth. Clarendon Press, Oxford. {{ISBN|0 19854654 8}}.
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Category:Prehistoric placental genera
Category:Eocene mammals of Europe
Category:Quercy Phosphorites Formation
Category:Fossil taxa described in 1848
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