A Summary of Adapiform Systematics and Phylogeny

1998/02/14 by Marc Godinot · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy #Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Systematics #Affinities #Subfamily #Biology #Zoology #Evolutionary biology #Phylogenetics #Taxonomy (biology) #Genetics

paper · doi:10.1159/000052715

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Abstract

The systematics of all adapiforms is reviewed at the generic and specific levels. A new classification is proposed for the 30 genera of adapiforms, containing three families: Notharctidae, Adapidae and Sivaladapidae; and one subfamily of uncertain affinities, the new Pronycticebinae. A stratophenetic schema summarizing the distribution and phylogenetic relationships of all European adapiforms, Cercamoniinae, Notharctinae and Adapidae, is given. The particular characters of the skull of Pronycticebus gaudryi warrant its isolation in a separate subfamily Pronycticebinae, nocturnal adapiforms which are of special significance for lemuriform ancestry. Agerinia might pertain to the same group. Four genera are proposed as adapids outside the European adapine radiation. Amphipithecinae and several other Asiatic genera of uncertain affinities are discussed.

Citations

• Early Eocene Cantius torresi—oldest primate of modern aspect from North America
• Cranial morphology and adaptations of Palaechthon nacimienti and other paromomyidae (Plesiadapoidea, ? primates), with a description of a new genus and species
• The skeleton of early Eocene Cantius, oldest lemuriform primate

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