Jamaican monkey

The Jamaican monkey (Xenothrix mcgregori) is an extinct species of New World monkey first uncovered at Long Mile Cave in Jamaica by Harold Anthony in 1919. Anthony is responsible for many species descriptions of Caribbean taxa during this period and his field notes record the discovery of the monkey material:
The eventual species description was not completed until 1952 when two graduate students, Ernest Williams and Karl Koopman, found the associated femur and mandibular fragment forgotten in a drawer at the American Museum of Natural History. They remained circumspect in placing this primate taxonomically as it had shared characteristics with a number of platyrrhine taxa.[2]
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