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Adapiformes are an extinct group of primitive primates. The adapiformes dominated much of the northern continents, reaching as far south as northern Africa and tropical Asia. The adapiformes existed from the Eocene epoch to the Miocene epoch. Most of the adapiformes looked similar to living lemurs.

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  • Adapiformes are an extinct group of primitive primates. The adapiformes dominated much of the northern continents, reaching as far south as northern Africa and tropical Asia. The adapiformes existed from the Eocene epoch to the Miocene epoch. Most of the adapiformes looked similar to living lemurs.
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  • Adapiformes are an extinct group of primitive primates. The adapiformes dominated much of the northern continents, reaching as far south as northern Africa and tropical Asia. The adapiformes existed from the Eocene epoch to the Miocene epoch. Most of the adapiformes looked similar to living lemurs. The adapiforms are known from the fossil record only, and it is unclear whether they form a suborder proper, or a paraphyletic grouping. They are usually grouped under the Strepsirrhini semiorder and would as such be ancestral to the lemurs, but not to the Haplorrhini semiorder including monkeys and apes. Franzen et al. (2009) place the newly-described Darwinius genus in the "Adapoidea group of early primates representative of early haplorhine diversification" so that according to these authors, the adapiforms would not be entirely within the Strepsirrhini lineage as hitherto assumed but qualify as a "missing link" between Strepsirrhini and Haplorrhini.
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