Heterohyus is an extinct genus of apatemyid from the early to late Eocene. A small, tree-dwelling creature with elongated fore- and middle fingers, in these regards it somewhat resembled a modern-day aye-aye.
Three skeletons have been found at the early Eocene site at Messel Pit, Germany
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- McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp.
- Morlo, Michael et al. An annotated taxonomic list of the Middle Eocene (MP11) Vertebratae of Messel gives as author: Teilhard de Chardin, 1921 - please refer to footnote 88.
- Kenneth David Rose. The Beginning of the Age of Mammals. JHU Press, 2006, , , 428 pp. gives as author: Koenigswald, 1990
- Schaal, Stephan, & Ziegler, Willi (eds) 1992. Messel. An insight into the history of life on Earth. Clarendon Press, Oxford. .
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