page_title: List of fossil primates
section_title: Adapoidea
hierarchical_section_title: List of fossil primates / Strepsirrhini / Infraorder Adapiformes / Adapoidea
caption_attribution_description: Early Eocene (55-50 mya); Smilodectes gracilis, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
context_page_description: This is a list of fossil primates—extinct primates for which a fossil record exists. Primates are generally thought to have evolved from a small, unspecialized mammal, which probably fed on insects and fruits. However, the precise source of the primates remains controversial and even their arboreal origin has recently been questioned. As it has been suggested, many other mammal orders are arboreal too, but they have not developed the same characteristics as primates. Nowadays, some well known genera, such as Purgatorius and Plesiadapis, thought to be the most ancient primates for a long time, are not usually considered as such by recent authors, who tend to include them in the new order Plesiadapiformes, within superorder Euarchontoglires. Some, to avoid confusions, employ the unranked term Euprimates, which excludes Plesiadapiformes. That denomination is not used here.
  There is an academic debate on the time the first primates appeared. One of the earliest probable primate fossils is the problematic Altiatlasius koulchii, perhaps an Omomyid, but perhaps a non-Primate Plesiadapiform, which lived in Morocco, during the Paleocene, around 60 Ma.
context_section_description: Ekgmowechashalidae Szalay, 1976
  Bugtilemur Marivaux et al., 2001
  Bugtilemur mathesoni Marivaux et al., 2001
  Ekgmowechashala Macdonald, 1963
  Ekgmowechashala philotau Macdonald, 1963
  Ekgmowechashala zancanellai Samuels, Albright & Fremd, 2015
  Gatanthropus Ni et al., 2016
  Gatanthropus micros Ni et al., 2016
  Muangthanhinius Marivaux et al., 2006
  Muangthanhinius siami Marivaux et al., 2006
  Notharctidae Trouessart, 1879
  Notharctinae Trouessart, 1879
  Cantius Simons, 1962
  Cantius abditus Gingerich & Simmons, 1977
  Cantius angulatus Cope, 1875
  Cantius antediluvius Kihm, 1992
  Cantius eppsi Cooper, 1932
  Cantius frugivorus Cope, 1875
  Cantius lohseorum Robinson, 2016
  Cantius mckennai Gingerich & Simons, 1977
  Cantius nuniensis Cope, 1881
  Cantius ralstoni Matthew, 1915
  Cantius savagei Gingerich, 1977
  Cantius torresi Gingerich, 1986
  Copelemur Gingerich & Simons, 1977
  Copelemur australotutus Beard, 1988
  Copelemur praetutus Gazin, 1962
  Copelemur tutus Cope, 1877
  Hesperolemur Gunnell, 1995
  Hesperolemur actius Gunnell, 1995
  Megaceralemur Robinson, 2016
  Megaceralemur trigonodus (Matthew, 1915)
  Megaceralemur matthewi Robinson, 2016
  Notharctus Leidy, 1870
  Notharctus pugnax Granger & Gregory, 1917
  Notharctus robustior Leidy, 1870
  Notharctus tenebrosus Leidy, 1870
  Notharctus venticolus Osborn, 1902
  Pelycodus Cope, 1875
  Pelycodus danielsae Froehlich & Lucas, 1991
  Pelycodus jarrovii Cope, 1874
  Pinolophus Robinson, 2016
  Pinolophus meikei Robinson, 2016
  Smilodectes Wortman, 1903
  Smilodectes gingerichi Beard, 1988
  Smilodectes gracilis Marsh, 1871
  Smilodectes mcgrewi Gingerich, 1979
  Cercamoniinae Gingerich, 1975
  Agerinia Crusafont-Pairo & Golpe-Posse, 1973
  Agerinia marandati Femenias-Gual, Minwer-Barakat, Marigó, Poyatos-Moré, and Moyà-Solà, 2017
  Agerinia roselli Crusafont-Pairo & Golpe-Posse, 1973
  Agerinia smithorum Femenias-Gual, Minwer-Barakat, Marigó, and Moyà-Solà, 2016
  Anchomomys Stehlin, 1916
  Anchomomys crocheti Godinot, 1988
  Anchomomys gaillardi Stehlin, 1916
  Anchomomys pygmaeus Rütimeyer, 1890
  Anchomomys quercy Stehlin, 1916
  Barnesia Thalmann, 1994
  Barnesia hauboldi Thalmann, 1994
  Buxella Godinot, 1988
  Buxella magna Godinot, 1988
  Buxella prisca Godinot, 1988
  Donrussellia Szalay, 1976
  Donrussellia gallica Russell, Louis & Savage, 1967
  Donrussellia louisi
  Donrussellia magna
  Donrussellia provincialis
  Donrussellia russelli
  Mazateronodon Marigó, Minwer-Barakat, & Moyà-Solà, 2010
  Mazateronodon endemicus Marigó, Minwer-Barakat, & Moyà-Solà, 2010
  Panobius Russell & Gingerich, 1987
  Panobius afridi Russell & Gingerich, 1987
  Periconodon Stehlin, 1916
  Periconodon helleri Schwartz et al., 1983
  Periconodon helveticus Rütimeyer, 1891
  Periconodon huerzeleri Gingerich, 1977
  Periconodon jaegeri Godinot, 1988
  Periconodon lemoinei Gingerich, 1977
  Protoadapis Lemoine, 1878
  Protoadapis angustidens Filhol, 1888
  Protoadapis brachyrhynchus Stehlin, 1912
  Protoadapis curvicuspidens Lemoine, 1878
  Protoadapis ignoratus Thalmann, 1994
  Protoadapis muechelnensis Thalmann, 1994
  Protoadapis recticuspidens Lemoine, 1878
  Protoadapis weigelti Gingerich, 1977
  Pronycticebus Grandidier, 1904
  Pronycticebus gaudryi Grandidier, 1904
  Pronycticebus neglectus Thalmann et al., 1989
  Asiadapidae Rose et al., 2009
  Anthrasimias Bajpai et al., 2008
  Anthrasimias gujaratensis Bajpai et al., 2008
  Asiadapis Rose et al., 2007
  Asiadapis cambayensis Rose et al., 2007
  Asiadapis tapiensis Rose et al., 2018
  Marcgodinotius Bajpai et al., 2005
  Marcgodinotius indicus Bajpai et al., 2005
  Adapidae Trouessart, 1879
  Adapinae Trouesart, 1879
  Adapis Cuvier, 1821
  Adapis bruni
  Adapis collinsonae Hooker, 1986
  Adapis parisiensis de Blainville, 1841
  Adapis sudrei Gingerich, 1977
  Cryptadapis Godinot, 1984
  Cryptadapis laharpei Godinot, 1984
  Cryptadapis tertius Godinot, 1984
  Leptadapis Gervais, 1876
  Leptadapis assolicus
  Leptadapis filholi Godinot & Couette, 2008
  Leptadapis capellae Crusafont-Pairo, 1967
  Leptadapis leenhardti Stehlin, 1912
  Leptadapis magnus Filhol, 1874
  Leptadapis ruetimeyeri Stehlin, 1912
  Magnadapis Godinot & Couette, 2008
  Magnadapis quercyi Godinot & Couette, 2008
  Magnadapis fredi Godinot & Couette, 200
caption: Smilodectes
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