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Adapids
Conservation status: Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Strepsirrhini
Family: Adapidae
Genera (extinct)

Godinotia
others


The adapids, members of the extinct family Adapidae, are prosimian primates that lived during the Eocene era. Adapids are believed to have been generally lemur-like, and are considered by many to be the probable ancestors of modern lemurs and lorises.


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Primate (1587 words)
Some classification schemes wrap the Lepilemuridae into the Lemuridae and the Galagidae into the Lorisidae, yielding a three-two family split instead of the four-three split as presented here.
During the Eocene, most of the northern continents were dominated by two dominant groups, the adapids and the omomyids.
The former is considered a member of Strepsirrhini, but it does not have a tooth comb like modern lemurs.
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