New Species of Eocene Primates and the Phytogeny of European Adapidae

31 January 1977

journal article
research article
Published by Brill in Folia Primatologica

Vol. 28 (1) , 60-80
https://doi.org/10.1159/000155799

Abstract

Restudy of virtually all of the important collections of European Eocene primates of the family Adapidae indicates that 28 valid species in 8 genera are now known, spanning a time period of nearly 20 million years. The biostratigraphic distribution of each species has been studied in the context of established reference levels, and a maximum of four evolutionary lineages are known from any one locality. Ten new species are proposed in the genera Pelycodus (1 sp.), Protoadapis (4 sp.), Periconodon (2 sp.), Anchomomys (1 sp.), and Adapts (2 sp.). Phylogenetic relationships among the species, based on stratophenetic linking, are indicated whenever possible.

Keywords

LEMURIFORMES

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New Adapid Primate of European Affinities from Texas
Folia Primatologica, 1976