Notharctus

noun

No·​tharc·​tus

-təs

: a genus of primitive North American Eocene lemurs with large orbits and 40 teeth of which the incisors are not procumbent, that is related to Adapis, and known from the North American Eocene

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from noth- + Greek arktos bear

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