Eosimiiformes

Eosimiiformes
Life restoration of Eosimias sinensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Eosimiiformes
Chaimanee et al., 2012
Taxa

Eosimiiformes is an extinct clade of Paleogene haplorhine primates whose fossils have been found in Africa, South America, and South Asia.[2][3] They comprised the families Afrotarsiidae and Eosimiidae.

Below is a phylogeny of the eosimiiforms after Marivaux et al. (2023) in their description of Ashaninkacebus:[2]

Simiiformes

Eosimiiformes

Phileosimias

Afrotarsiidae
Eosimiidae

References

  1. ^ "Eosimiidae". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
  2. ^ a b Marivaux, Laurent; Negri, Francisco R.; Antoine, Pierre-Olivier; Stutz, Narla S.; Condamine, Fabien L.; Kerber, Leonardo; Pujos, François; Ventura Santos, Roberto; Alvim, André M. V.; Hsiou, Annie S.; Bissaro, Marcos C.; Adami-Rodrigues, Karen; Ribeiro, Ana Maria (11 July 2023). "An eosimiid primate of South Asian affinities in the Paleogene of Western Amazonia and the origin of New World monkeys". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120 (28) e2301338120. Bibcode:2023PNAS..12001338M. doi:10.1073/pnas.2301338120. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 10334725. PMID 37399374.
  3. ^ Jaeger, Jean-Jacques; Chavasseau, Olivier; Lazzari, Vincent; Naing Soe, Aung; Sein, Chit; Le Maître, Anne; Shwe, Hla; Chaimanee, Yaowalak (2019-08-06). "New Eocene primate from Myanmar shares dental characters with African Eocene crown anthropoids". Nature Communications. 10 (1): 3531. Bibcode:2019NatCo..10.3531J. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11295-6. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 6684601. PMID 31388005.