Mammalia - Primates - Adapidae
Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1875. Systematic Catalogue of Vertebrata of the Eocene of New Mexico, Collected in 1874. Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Engineer Department, U. S. Army 5-37
Parent taxon: Adapidae according to P. D. Gingerich and R. A. Haskin 1981
See also Beard 1988, Cope 1875, Franzen 1994, Gazin 1958, Gingerich 1979, Gingerich 1980, Gingerich and Simons 1977, Hay 1902, Matthew 1915, McKenna and Bell 1997, Osborn 1902, Schlosser 1877 and Simpson 1940
Sister taxa: Adapina, Adapinae, Arisella, Arisella capellae, Sivaladapis
Subtaxa: Pelycodus danielsae Pelycodus eppsi Pelycodus jarrovii Pelycodus savagei
Type: Prototomus jarrovii
Ecology: arboreal herbivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of France (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1), United States (9: Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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