Cartelles

Cartelles Temporal range: Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Animalia
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Chordata
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Mammalia
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Primates
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Haplorhini
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Simiiformes
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Atelidae
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	Alouattinae
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".:	†Cartelles Halenar & Rosenberger, 2013
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Binomial name
†Cartelles coimbrafilhoi Halenar & Rosenberger, 2013

Cartelles is an extinct genus of New World monkey. Fossils of this species were found in Bahia, Brazil , within the Toca da Boa Vista caves, and were originally described as belonging to another extinct Atelidae genus, Protopithecus.^[1]

Cartelles was a very large monkey, and is considered the largest member of its family to have ever existed, at a weight of up to 24 kg (53 lb). ^[2] Unlike most living New World Monkeys, Cartelles probably spent a good deal of its time on the ground, though it was also as proficient in arboreal locomotion as its smaller living relatives. It lived as recently as 15,000 BP.

Fossils of Cartelles were found in 1992 and were originally assigned to the genus Protopithecus. However, subsequent re-examination of its skeleton have showed many distinct cranial and postcranial features. Elements of the skull indicate that its closest living relatives are howler monkeys, and it is considered a member of the subfamily Alouattinae. It is uncertain if Cartelles could have howled like living howler monkeys, however.^{[citation needed]}

The genus was named in honor of palaeontologist Cástor Cartelle, who described the original fossil material.^{[citation needed]}

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