Omomyidae

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Name (Latin)
Omomyidae
See Also From tracing topical name
Primates, Fossil
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q134979
Library of congress: sh 85094702
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Wikipedia description:

Omomyidae is a family of early primates that radiated during the Eocene epoch between about 55 to 34 million years ago (mya). Fossil omomyids are found in North America, Europe & Asia, making it one of two groups of Eocene primates with a geographic distribution spanning holarctic continents, the other being the adapids (family Adapidae). Early representatives of the Omomyidae and Adapidae appear suddenly at the beginning of the Eocene (56 mya) in North America, Europe, and Asia, and are the earliest known crown primates. Omomyids are generally regarded as closely related to or within the Tarsiiformes, and thus most closely related to tarsiers among living primates.

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