Asiadapis
Appearance
Asiadapis Temporal range: Ypresian,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
Family: | †Notharctidae |
Subfamily: | †Asiadapinae |
Genus: | †Asiadapis Rose et al., 2007 |
Type species | |
†Asiadapis cambayensis Rose et al., 2007
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Species | |
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Asiadapis is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in India's Cambay Shale Formation during the early Eocene (Ypresian). It has two known species, Asiadapis cambayensis[1] and Asiadapis tapiensis.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ K. D. Rose, R. S. Rana, A. Sahni and T. Smith. 2007. A new adapoid primate from the early Eocene of India. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 31(14):379-385
- ^ Kenneth D. Rose; Rachel H. Dunn; Kishor Kumar; Jonathan M. G. Perry; Kristen A. Prufrock; Rajendra S. Rana; Thierry Smith (2018). "New fossils from Tadkeshwar Mine (Gujarat, India) increase primate diversity from the early Eocene Cambay Shale". Journal of Human Evolution. 122: 93–107. Bibcode:2018JHumE.122...93R. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.05.006. PMID 29886006. S2CID 47012170.