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Primates is an order of mammals, which is further divided into the strepsirrhines, ... Primates was divided into two superfamilies: Prosimii and Anthropoidea. ...
Propliopithecoidea is a superfamily of catarrhine primates that inhabited Africa and the Arabian Peninsula during the Early Oligocene about 32 to 29 million years ago. Fossils have been found in Egypt, Oman and Angola. They are one of the earliest known families of catarrhines.
The following is the listing of the various simian families, and their placement in the order Primates: [1] [2] Order Primates. Suborder Strepsirrhini: nontarsier prosimians; Suborder Haplorhini: tarsiers and monkeys, including apes Infraorder Tarsiiformes; Infraorder Simiiformes. Parvorder Platyrrhini: New World monkeys
The order Primates consists of 505 extant species belonging to 81 genera. This does not include hybrid species or extinct prehistoric species. Modern molecular studies indicate that the 81 genera can be grouped into 16 families; these families are divided between two named suborders and are grouped in those suborders into named clades, and some of these families are subdivided into named ...
A primate is a member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains lemurs, the aye-aye, lorisids, galagos, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes, with the last category including great apes. With the exception of humans, who inhabit every continent on Earth, most primates live in tropical or subtropical regions of the Americas , Africa and ...
Order Primates [1] Suborder Strepsirrhini: lemurs, lorises, etc. Suborder Haplorhini: tarsiers + monkeys, including apes Infraorder Tarsiiformes. Family Tarsiidae: tarsiers; Infraorder Simiiformes : simians (monkeys, including apes), or higher primates Parvorder Catarrhini. Superfamily †Propliopithecoidea
Pliopithecoidea is an extinct superfamily of catarrhine primates that inhabited Asia and Europe during the Miocene. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although they were once a widespread and diverse group of primates, the pliopithecoids have no living descendants.
Lemuriformes is the sole extant infraorder of primate that falls under the suborder Strepsirrhini.It includes the lemurs of Madagascar, as well as the galagos and lorisids of Africa and Asia, although a popular alternative taxonomy places the lorisoids in their own infraorder, Lorisiformes.