Adapiformes

Taxobox | name = Adapiformes
fossil_range = Eocene - Miocene


image_caption="Notharctus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Primates
subordo = Strepsirrhini
infraordo = Adapiformes
infraordo_authority | author = Hoffstetter | date = 1977
subdivision_ranks = Families (extinct)
subdivision = Notharctidae
Sivaladapidae
Adapidae

Adapiformes are an extinct group of primitive primates. Their closest living relatives are the lemurs, lorises, and galagos. The adapiformes dominated much of the northern continents, reaching as far south as northern Africa and tropical Asia. The adapiformes existed from the Eocene epoch to the Miocene epoch. Most of the adapiformes looked similar to living lemurs.

Classification

*Family Notharctidae
**Subfamily Cercamoniinae
***Genus "Anchomomys"
***Genus "Buxella"
***Genus "Donrussellia"
***Genus "Europolemur"
***Genus "Mahgarita"
***Genus "Periconodon"
***Genus "Pronycticebus"
**Subfamily Notharctinae
***Genus "Cantius"
***Genus "Copelemur"
***Genus "Hesperolemur"
***Genus "Notharctus"
***Genus "Pelycodus"
***Genus "Smilodectes"
*Family Sivaladapidae
**Genus "Kyitchaungia"
**Genus "Paukkaungia"
**Genus "Siamoadapis"
**Genus "Sivaladapis"
*Family Adapidae
**Genus "Adapis"
**Genus "Adapoides"
**Genus "Leptadapis"
**Genus "Godinotia"
*Family Incertae sedis
**Genus "Omanodon"
**Genus "Muangthanhinius"

References

*Beard, K. C., L. Marivaux, S. T. Tun, A. N. Soe, Y. Chaimanee, W. Htoon, B. Marandat, H. H. Aung, and J.-J. Jaeger. 2007. New silvaladapid primates from the Eocene Ponduang Formation of Myanmar and the anthropoid status of Amphipithecidae. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 39:57-65.

External links

* [http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Synapsida/Eutheria/Primates/Strepsirrhini.htm Mikko's Phylogeny Archive]