Marcgodinotius

{{Short description|Extinct genus of primates}}

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| taxon = Marcgodinotius indicus

| extinct = yes

| parent_authority = Bajpai et al., 2005

| authority = Bajpai et al., 2005

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|56.0|47.8}}Early Eocene{{Cite web|title=PBDB|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=98779&is_real_user=1|access-date=2021-08-18|website=paleobiodb.org}}

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Marcgodinotius is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in Asia during the early Eocene.{{Cite journal |last1=Bajpai |first1=Sunil |last2=Kapur |first2=Vivesh V. |last3=Thewissen |first3=J. G. M. |last4=Das |first4=Debasis P. |last5=Tiwari |first5=B. N. |last6=Sharma |first6=Ritu |last7=Saravanan |first7=N. |date=2005 |title=Early eocene primates from Vastan lignite mine, Gujarat, western India |url=http://palaeontologicalsociety.in/publication.php |journal=Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India |language=en |volume=50 |issue=2 |pages=43–45 |issn=0552-9360}}{{Sfn|Fleagle|2013|pp=237–238}} It is a monotypic genus, the only species being Marcgodinotius indicus. Another adapiform primate Suratius robustus was found in the same horizon.{{Cite journal |last1=Bajpai |first1=Sunil |last2=Kapur |first2=Vivesh V. |last3=Das |first3=Debasis P. |last4=Tiwari |first4=B. N. |date=2007 |title=New early eocene primate (Mammalia) from Vastan lignite Mine, District Surat (Gujarat), western India |url=http://palaeontologicalsociety.in/publication.php |journal=Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India |volume=52 |issue=2 |pages=231–234 |issn=0552-9360}} Anthrasimias may be a junior synonym of Marcgodinotius and Anthrasimias gujaratensis a junior synonym of Marcgodinotius indicus.{{cite journal| doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.06.006 |pmid = 27650579| volume=99 | title=New euprimate postcrania from the early Eocene of Gujarat, India, and the strepsirrhine–haplorhine divergence | year=2016 | journal=Journal of Human Evolution | pages=25–51 | last1 = Dunn | first1 = Rachel H.| bibcode=2016JHumE..99...25D }}{{cite web|url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160815134827.htm|title=Twenty-five little bones tell a puzzling story about early primate evolution: Newly discovered primate bones appear to be the most primitive ever found|author=|date=|website=ScienceDaily|access-date=21 February 2019}}

Marcgodinotius indicus was a species of primate first found in Gujarat, India in 2005. It is believed to have lived about 55 million years ago, during the early Eocene. It weighed around 75 grams which would make it only slightly larger than the world's smallest primates, the mouse lemurs and the dwarf galagos.{{cite journal |last=Bajpai |first=Sunil |display-authors=etal |year=2008 |title=The oldest Asian record of Anthropoidea |url=http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/08/05/0804159105.full.pdf |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume=105 |issue=32 |pages=11093–11098 |bibcode=2008PNAS..10511093B |doi=10.1073/pnas.0804159105 |pmc=2516236 |pmid=18685095 |access-date=2008-08-08 |doi-access=free}}

The generic name, Anthrasimias, referred to {{transliteration|el|anthra}}, Greek for coal, because the fossils were found in a coal mine and {{lang|la|simias}}, Latin for monkey or ape.