Omomyidae
Extinct family of primates / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For an explanation of very similar terms, see Tarsiiformes.
Omomyidae is a group of early primates that radiated during the Eocene epoch between about 55 to 34 million years ago (mya). Fossil omomyids are found in North America, Europe & Asia, making it one of two groups of Eocene primates with a geographic distribution spanning holarctic continents, the other being the adapids (family Adapidae). Early representatives of the Omomyidae and Adapidae appear suddenly at the beginning of the Eocene (56 mya) in North America, Europe, and Asia, and are the earliest known crown primates.
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The skull of Anaptomorphus | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Clade: | †Omomyiformes |
Superfamily: | †Omomyoidea |
Family: | †Omomyidae |
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