Adapidae

Adapidae is a family of extinct primates that primarily radiated during the Eocene epoch.

Adapidae

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AdapiformesPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB
Life habit
arborealPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 78 occurrencesEocene — about 77 of 78 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 78 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 78 occurrencesMiocene57–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 6 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 6 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 5 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–40 Mya — about 7 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 10 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 10 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 10 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 10 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51.1 Mya15.98 Mya56.9 Mya10.7 Mya

78 occurrences of Adapidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

78 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

21 formations

DeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WCreechbarrow Limestone — 50.65°N, 2.12°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.62°N, 108.50°WLignites de Soissonais — 43.62°N, 5.75°EWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WEscanilla — 42.20°N, 0.40°EPerrière — 44.37°N, 1.73°EPerrière — 44.38°N, 1.43°ECollegats — 42.25°N, 1.08°ECalcaire de Ventenac — 43.08°N, 2.50°EBellmunt — 42.17°N, 2.01°EHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WLower Variegated Sequence — 43.90°N, 110.80°WCalcaire de Saint-Ouen — 49.13°N, 3.35°EPerriere — 44.35°N, 1.73°EUpper Headon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°WChinji — 32.82°N, 75.37°ESilveirinha — 40.01°N, 8.82°WMazaterón — 41.53°N, 2.12°WHedi — 34.80°N, 111.91°ESuffolk Pebble Beds — 52.10°N, 1.32°E

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The named rock units Adapidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Adapidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Adapidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

777 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Adapidae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

33 references

Each of the 78 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 21 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Adapidae

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Adapidae incertae sedis · UCMP:V:236082

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAdapiformes through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Trouessart 1879