Adapiformes
Adapiformes | |
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Notharctus tenebrosus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
Infraorder: | †Adapiformes Hoffstetter, 1977 |
Superfamily: | † Adapoidea , 1879
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Families | |
Synonyms | |
Adapiformes is a group of early
Adapiforms are known from the fossil record only, and it is unclear whether they form a
In 2009, Franzen and colleagues placed the newly described genus Darwinius in the "Adapoidea group of early primates representative of early haplorhine diversification" so that, according to these authors, the adapiforms would not be within the Strepsirrhini lineage as hitherto assumed but qualify as a stem "missing link" between Strepsirrhini and Haplorrhini.[5] However, subsequent analysis on the Darwinius fossil by Erik Seiffert and colleagues rejects this "missing link" idea, classifying Darwinius and other adapiforms within the Strepsirrhini.[6]
Boyer et al. found that the crown Strepsirrhini likely emerged deep in the Adapiformes tree, possibly as sister of a group which include e.g. Aframonius and Notharctidae.[7] The Adapiformes are thus found not to be literally extinct (in the sense of having no living descendants), and becomes a junior synonym to the Strepsirrhini. Below is a simplified cladogram.
Primates
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A 2018 study puts Donrussellia as sister to crown primates.[8]
Classification
Adapiforms belong to the infraorder Adapiformes, which contains a single superfamily, Adapoidea.[9] The group also is sometimes treated as a superfamily (Adapoidea) alongside the other living strepsirrhine superfamilies, Lemuroidea (lemurs) and Lorisoidea (lorises and galagos).[10]
- Infraorder Adapiformes
- Superfamily Adapoidea
- Family Notharctidae
- Family Sivaladapidae
- Family Adapidae
- Superfamily Adapoidea
- Infraorder incertae sedis
- Superfamily incertae sedis
- Family Azibiidae
- Family Djebelemuridae
- Superfamily incertae sedis
Rose (1995) suggests that early adapiformes and
References
- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
- PMID 27650579.
- ^ Twenty-five little bones tell a puzzling story about early primate evolution
- ISBN 978-0-306-48120-8, p. 100
- PMID 19492084.
- ^ Ritter, M. (October 21, 2009). "Primate fossil called only a distant relative". Associated Press. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
- PMID 29935935.
- ISSN 1094-8074.
- ^ Fleagle 2013, p. 415.
- ^ Rose 2009, p. 286.
- ISBN 978-1461347002.
Sources
- Rose, K.D. (2009). The Beginning of the Age of Mammals. OCLC 646769601.
- Fleagle, J.G. (2013). Primate Adaptation and Evolution (3rd ed.). OCLC 820107187.