Teilhardina was an early marmoset-like primate that lived in Europe, North America and Asia during in the Early Eocene epoch, about 56-47 million years ago. The paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson is credited with naming it after the French paleontologist, Jesuit and philosopher Teilhard de Chardin. It is known from quite a few species: \n* †Teilhardina crassidens \n* †Teilhardina belgica \n* †Teilhardina americana \n* †Teilhardina brandti \n* †Teilhardina demissa \n* †Teilhardina tenuicula \n* †Teilhardina asiatica \n* †Teilhardina magnoliana