Smilodectes

Smilodectes Temporal range: Early-Mid Eocene (Wasatchian-Bridgerian) ~50.3–46.2 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Smilodectes skeleton at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Strepsirrhini
Family:	†Notharctidae
Subfamily:	†Notharctinae
Genus:	†Smilodectes Wortman, 1903
Species
S. gingerichi Beard, 1988 S. gracilis Marsh, 1871 S. mcgrewi Gingerich, 1979

Smilodectes is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in North America during the middle Eocene.^[1] It possesses a post-orbital bar and grasping thumbs and toes. Smilodectes has a small cranium size and the foramen magnum was located at the back of the skull, on the occipital bone.