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