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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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;...
- amphimerycid artiodactyls, palaeotheriid perissodactyls, pseudosciurid rodents, adapid and omomyid primates, and nyctitheriids. Post-Grande Coupure artiodactyl...
- 2009-05-20. Brian Switek (May 19, 2009). "Poor, poor Ida, Or: "Overselling an Adapid": Laelaps". Archived from the original on 2012-05-21. Retrieved 2009-05-20...
- 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...
- Eocene-Recent primates. A study done in 1987 linked Plesiadapiformes with adapids and omomyids through nine shared-derived features, six of which are cranial...
- Ailuravus and Plesiarctomys, pseudosciurid Treposciurus, omomyid Necrolemur, adapid Leptadapis, proviverrine Proviverra, palaeotheres (Propalaeotherium, Anchilophus...