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- some North American omomyids evolved body m****es in excess of 1 kg (2.2 lb) and frugivorous or folivorous diets. The largest omomyids were Macrotarsius...
- directly descended from omomyids, with simians being a separate line, or that both simians and tarsiers are descended from omomyids. Haplorhines share a...
- family Tarsiidae, and the latter listed as incertae sedis (undefined). Omomyids are generally considered to be extinct relatives, or even ancestors, of...
- from the fossil record are the omomyids, which resembled modern day tarsiers. Like the strepsirrhine adapiforms, omomyids were diverse and ranged throughout...
- northern continents were dominated by two groups, the adapiforms and the omomyids. The former are considered members of Strepsirrhini, but did not have a...
- orbits in proportion to its skull length when compared to other Eocene omomyids and the snout is much smaller, both of these traits are also observed in...
- primates. A study done in 1987 linked Plesiadapiformes with adapids and omomyids through nine shared-derived features, six of which are cranial or dental:...
- found, appearing to be most closely related to tarsiers and the fossil omomyids, although A. achilles is suggested to have been diurnal, whereas tarsiers...
- many have placed it as either a primitive omomyid or as a member of the sister group to both adapoids and omomyids. The genus is represented by one species...
- artiodactyl Erlianhyus, the perissodactyls Deperetella and Lophialetes, the omomyid Tarkops, the glirian Gomphos, the rodent Tamquammys, and various indeterminate...