Namaia

Namaia bogenfelsi
Temporal range: Early Middle Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Strepsirrhini
Infraorder: incertae sedis
Family: Djebelemuridae
Genus: Namaia
Pickford et al., 2008
Species: N. bogenfelsi
Binomial name
Namaia bogenfelsi
Pickford et al., 2008

Namaia is a genus of primate related to lemuriforms that lived in Africa during the early middle Eocene. It was originally thought to be an early simian, but was later aligned with the djebelemurids.[1]

Notes

    References

    1. Fleagle 2013, p. 232.

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