Protoadapis

Protoadapis
Temporal range: Middle Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Strepsirrhini
Family: Notharctidae
Subfamily: Cercamoniinae
Genus: Protoadapis
Lemoine, 1878
Type species
Protoadapis curvicuspidens
Lemoine, 1878
Species
  • P. angustidens
  • P. curvicuspidens
  • P. ignoratus
  • P. muechelnensis
  • P. recticuspidens
  • P. weigelti

Protoadapis is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in Europe during the early middle Eocene.[1]

References

  1. Gebo 2002, p. 29.

Literature cited

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