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Adapidae

Synonyms: Arisella capellae

Wikipedia Abstract

Adapidae is a family of extinct primates that primarily radiated during the Eocene epoch between about 55 and 34 million years ago. Adapid systematics and evolutionary relationships are controversial, but there is fairly good evidence from the postcranial skeleton (everything but the skull, or cranium) that adapids were stem strepsirrhines (members of the group including the living lemurs, lorises, and bushbabies). In particular, the anatomy of the adapid wrist and ankle (e.g., position of the groove for the flexor fibularis tendon on the talus, the presence of a sloping talo-fibular facet) show derived similarities with those of living strepsirrhines. However, adapids lacked many of the anatomical specializations characteristic of living strepsirrhines, such as a toothcomb, a toilet-claw
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Genus

Adapis (4)
Adapoides (1)
Afradapis (1)
Aframonius (1)
Agerinia (3)
Anchomomys (5)
Azibius (1)
Caenopithecus (1)
Cercamonius (1)
Djebelemur (1)
Donrussellia (3)
Huerzeleris (1)
Indraloris (2)
Leptadapis (4)
Magnadapis (4)
Mahgarita (1)
Mazateronodon (1)
Microadapis (1)
Nievesia (1)
Omanodon (1)
Panobius (3)
Pronycticebus (2)
Protoadapis (3)
Sinoadapis (2)
Sivaladapis (2)

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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0