Adapis Temporal range: Early – Late Eocene | |
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An artist's illustration of Adapis parisiensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
Family: | †Adapidae |
Subfamily: | †Adapinae |
Genus: | †Adapis Cuvier 1822 |
Type species | |
†Adapis parisiensis Cuvier, 1796 | |
Referred species | |
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Adapis is an extinct genus of adapiform primate belonging to the subfamily Adapinae. The genus was named by Cuvier in 1822 and contains up to three species. Males were larger than females. Adapis individuals probably were probably arboreal climbers as opposed to brachiators.
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https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4827756.htmlhttps://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/zmorph_anthropol/detail/78/99698/Toward_the_locomotion_of_two_contemporaneous_Adapi?af=crossref