Afradapis

Afradapis longicristatus
Temporal range: Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Strepsirrhini
Family: Adapidae
Subfamily: Caenopithecinae
Genus: Afradapis
Seiffert et al., 2009
Species: A. longicristatus
Binomial name
Afradapis longicristatus
Seiffert et al., 2009

Afradapis is a genus of adapiform primate that lived during the Eocene. It is one of two typically European caenopithecines to be found in northern Africa. Like more distantly related catarrhine primates, it had lost its anterior premolar, giving it a dental formula of 2.1.2.32.1.2.3. It ate leaves (folivorous and moved around slowly like lorises.[1]

References

  1. Fleagle 2013, p. 239.

Literature cited

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