Adapiformes

Adapiformes is a group of early primates. Adapiforms radiated throughout much of the northern continental mass, reaching as far south as northern Africa and tropical Asia. They existed from the Eocene to the Miocene epoch. Some adapiforms resembled living lemurs.

Adapiformes

Ernst Stromer · Public Domain · 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
StrepsirrhiniPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Primates
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Primates
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 815 occurrencesEocene — about 784 of 815 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 23 of 815 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 815 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 815 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 128 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 186 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 178 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 69 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 67 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 48 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 11 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 11 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 22 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 26 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 19 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 17 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 5 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 5 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–9.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.9–8.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.0–6.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.1–4.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51.1 Mya11.63 Mya60 Mya4 Mya

815 occurrences of Adapiformes on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

815 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

74 formations

Willwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 109.93°WWillwood — 44.80°N, 109.10°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.62°N, 108.50°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.86°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.69°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.63°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.67°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.62°WWillwood — 44.49°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.43°WWillwood — 44.49°N, 108.81°WWillwood — 44.60°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.41°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.52°N, 108.57°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.90°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.68°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.83°WWillwood — 44.41°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.35°N, 108.75°WWillwood — 44.61°N, 108.76°WWillwood — 44.15°N, 107.86°WWillwood — 44.15°N, 107.86°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.50°N, 110.60°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.22°N, 109.72°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 41.77°N, 110.33°WBridger — 41.65°N, 110.92°WBridger — 42.37°N, 108.91°WBridger — 41.87°N, 109.60°WBridger — 41.37°N, 109.82°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 107.00°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWasatch — 42.07°N, 109.10°WWasatch — 41.75°N, 108.00°WWasatch — 42.37°N, 108.91°WWasatch — 41.86°N, 110.78°WWasatch — 41.83°N, 110.75°WWasatch — 41.85°N, 110.75°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WWind River — 44.00°N, 106.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°W"Wasatch" — 44.00°N, 106.60°WCambay Shale — 21.40°N, 73.08°ECambay Shale — 21.35°N, 73.07°ECambay Shale — 21.33°N, 72.98°EGreen River — 41.80°N, 110.70°WGreen River — 41.20°N, 110.50°WGreen River — 42.70°N, 110.10°WGreen River — 41.70°N, 109.00°WGreen River — 42.45°N, 108.60°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WSharps — 43.30°N, 102.50°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WAycross — 43.90°N, 110.80°WAycross — 44.30°N, 109.00°WLignites de Soissonais — 43.62°N, 5.75°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.08°N, 4.03°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.05°N, 4.00°EHedi — 34.80°N, 111.91°EBellmunt — 42.17°N, 2.01°ECorçà — 42.01°N, 0.83°ECorçà — 42.02°N, 0.70°EDevil's Graveyard — 29.20°N, 103.20°WDevil's Graveyard — 29.90°N, 104.20°WWashakie — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWashakie — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWashakie — 41.29°N, 108.47°WCreechbarrow Limestone — 50.65°N, 2.12°WCaijiachong — 25.39°N, 103.95°EFriars — 32.90°N, 117.10°WGering — 41.70°N, 103.10°WEscanilla — 42.20°N, 0.40°EEscanilla — 42.16°N, 0.04°ECollegats — 42.25°N, 1.08°E

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The named rock units Adapiformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 50 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 87 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Adapiformes and its relatives

Eocene

Where Adapiformes and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

636 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 660 sites for Adapiformes, and this reads 240 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

176 references

Each of the 815 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. 164 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 content1

Picture of Adapiformes

Credit
Ernst Stromer
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Adapiformes was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hoffstetter 1977)