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Eocene epoch between about 55 and 34
million years ago.[citation needed]
Adapid systematics and
evolutionary relationships are controversial, but there...
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Plesiadapiformes ("
Adapid-like" or "near Adapiformes") is an
extinct basal pan-primates group, as
sister to the rest of the pan-primates. The pan-primates...
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geographic distribution spanning holarctic continents, the
other being the
adapids (family Adapidae).
Early representatives of the
Omomyidae and Adapidae...
- from one of
several genera of
European adapids based on
similarities between the
front lower teeth of
adapids and the
toothcomb of
extant lemuriforms;...
- and the
tapiroid perissodactyl Karagalax mamikhelensis ; the
presence of
adapids and
arctocyonids in the area
indicates that it
probably had an
older age...
- may have
originated in Asia. They were once
thought to have
evolved from
adapids, a more
specialized and
younger branch of
adapiform primarily from Europe...
- or earlier. One po****r
hypothesis is that they
evolved from
European adapids, but the
fossil record suggests that they
evolved from an
older lineage...
-
Ailuravus and Plesiarctomys,
pseudosciurid Treposciurus,
omomyid Necrolemur,
adapid Leptadapis,
proviverrine Proviverra,
palaeotheres (Propalaeotherium, Anchilophus...
- Eocene-Recent primates. A
study done in 1987
linked Plesiadapiformes with
adapids and
omomyids through nine shared-derived features, six of
which are cranial...
- shared. In
instances of
convergent evolution,
mixtotheriids shared with
adapid primates large sagittal crests (ridges on the top of the skull), wide zygomatic...
