Adapid

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Noun1.Adapid - extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruitAdapid - extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins
Adapid group
order Primates, Primates - an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings
taxon, taxonomic category, taxonomic group - animal or plant group having natural relations
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(1977): New species of Eocene primates and the phylogeny of European Adapidae. Folia Primatologica 28, 60-80.
(1993b): Middle Bartonian locality with Anchomomys (Adapidae, Primates) in the Spanish Pyrenees: Preliminary Report.
The primate fossil record in the Iberian Peninsula

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