Plesiadapis
Extinct genus of mammals / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Plesiadapis is one of the oldest known primate-like mammal genera which existed about 58–55 million years ago in North America and Europe.[2][3] Plesiadapis means "near-Adapis", which is a reference to the adapiform primate of the Eocene period, Adapis. Plesiadapis tricuspidens, the type specimen, is named after the three cusps present on its upper incisors.
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Plesiadapis | |
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Reconstructed skeleton of P. cooki at the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Brussels | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Plesiadapiformes |
Family: | †Plesiadapidae |
Genus: | †Plesiadapis Gervais, 1877 |
Type species | |
†Plesiadapis tricuspidens |
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