- Archaeoindris
Taxobox | name = "Archaeoindris"
status = Fossil
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis =Mammal ia
ordo =Primate s
subordo =Strepsirrhini
familia =Indriidae
subfamilia = †Palaeopropithecinae
genus = †"Archaeoindris"
species = †"A. fontoynonti"
binomial = †"Archaeoindris fontoynonti "
binomial_authority = Standing, 1909"Archaeoindris fontoynonti" is an extinct
species of Malagasylemur that was the largestprimate to evolve onMadagascar . It weighed about 200kg, [cite journal | author = William L. Jungers, Laurie R. Godfrey, Elwyn L. Simons, and Prithijit S. Chatrath | title = [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=23681 Phalangeal curvature and positional behavior in extinct sloth lemurs (Primates, Palaeopropithecidae)] | date = 1997 October 28 | journal = PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 94(22) | pages= 11998–12001 ] more than a silverbackgorilla . "Archaeoindris" is one of five known members of thePalaeopropithecinae subfamily, a part of theIndriidae family. "Archaeoindris" belongs to a lineage of lemurs called "sloth lemurs" because they are built similarly to modernSouth America n treesloth s. Due to its weight, "Archaeoindris" was believedFact|date=September 2008 to be exclusively or near-exclusively terrestrial. As more fossil material has come to light, however, it turned out that its arms and legs were better adapted for slow, ponderous climbingFact|date=September 2008.References
External links
* [http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Synapsida/Eutheria/Primates/Strepsirrhini/Indrioidea.htm Mikko's Phylogeny archive]
* [http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org/bio/f/lemurs.20060401/assets/290/extinction002.swf Science Bulletin on Lemurs]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.