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Adapid

Adapid

Adapids (members of the taxon Adapidae) are a diverse group of extinct primates that primarily radiated during the Eocene epoch between about 55 and 34 million years ago. However, one specialized endemic Asian group (sivaladapines) survived into the Miocene. Fossils of adapids are known from North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Adapids are one of two groups of Eocene primates with a geographic distribution spanning holarctic continents, the other being the omomyids.

 
 
Notharctidae

Notharctidae

Notharctidae is an extinct family of primitive primates.

 
 
Cercamoniinae

Cercamoniinae

Cercamoniinae is a subfamily within the extinct primate family Notharctidae.

 
 
Notharctus tenebrosus

Notharctus tenebrosus

Notharctus tenebrosus was an early primate from the early Eocene, some 54-38 million years ago. Its fossil was found by Ferdinand V. Hayden in 1870 in southwestern Wyoming. When first found, Notharctus tenebrosus was thought to be a small pachyderm due to the concentration of pachyderm fossils in the area. However, after Walter W. Granger's discovery of a nearly complete skeleton, also in Wyoming, it was firmly established as a primate.

 
 
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Siamoadapis maemohensis

Siamoadapis maemohensis is an extinct species of Adapiform primate found in Thailand. The fossils were discovered in the lignite layer of a coal mine in Mae Mo district, Lampang Province, northern Thailand, from which it also received its scientific species name. Four lower jaws with teeth were unearthed by a joint team of Thai and French geologists in 2004.