Sivaladapis Gingerich and Sahni 1979 (primate)

Mammalia - Primates - Adapidae

Full reference: P. D. Gingerich and A. Sahni. 1979. Indraloris and Sivaladapis: Miocene adapid primates from the Siwaliks of India and Pakistan. Nature 279:415-416

Parent taxon: Adapidae according to P. D. Gingerich and A. Sahni 1979

See also Hooker 1986, Ni et al. 2016 and Qi and Beard 1998

Sister taxa: Adapina, Adapinae, Arisella, Arisella capellae, Pelycodus

Subtaxa: Sivaladapis nagrii Sivaladapis palaeindicus

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Type: Sivanasua nagrii

Ecology: arboreal herbivore

Distribution: found only at Ramanagar (Miocene of India)

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