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Azibius

Mammalia - Primates - Azibiidae

Taxonomy

Azibius was named by Sudre (1975). Its type is Azibius trerki.

It was assigned to Paromomyiformes by Sudre (1975); to Azibiinae by Sudre (1979); and to Azibiidae by Tabuce et al. (2004), Tabuce et al. (2009).

Species

A. trerki (syn. Tabelia hammadae, Dralestes hammadaensis) (type species)

Synonyms

Tabelia was named by Godinot and Mahboubi (1994). It is not extant. It was considered monophyletic by Godinot and Mahboubi (1994).

It was synonymized subjectively with Azibius by Tabuce et al. (2009).

It was assigned to Simiiformes by Godinot and Mahboubi (1994); and to Anthropoidea by Gunnell and Miller (2001).
Dralestes was named by Tabuce et al. (2004). It is not extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Azibius by Tabuce et al. (2009).

It was assigned to Azibiidae by Tabuce et al. (2004).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1975	Azibius Sudre pp. 1539-1541 fig. 1
1979	Azibius Sudre p. 104
1994	Tabelia Godinot and Mahboubi
2001	Tabelia Gunnell and Miller p. 189
2004	Azibius Tabuce et al. p. 306
2004	Dralestes Tabuce et al. p. 307
2009	Azibius Tabuce et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida

Rank	Name	Author
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
—	Euarchonta
order	Primates
suborder	Strepsirrhini	Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
family	Azibiidae	(Gingerich 1976)
genus	Azibius

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Azibius Sudre 1975

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†Azibius trerki Sudre 1975

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Invalid names: Dralestes hammadaensis Tabuce et al. 2004 [synonym], Tabelia hammadae Godinot and Mahboubi 1994 [synonym]

Invalid names: Dralestes Tabuce et al. 2004 [synonym], Tabelia Godinot and Mahboubi 1994 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

arborealo

Diet:

omnivoreo

Reproduction:

viviparoussubc

Created:

2005-08-26 13:27:51

Modified:

2005-08-26 15:27:51

Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999

Age range: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Lutetian or 56.00000 to 41.03000 Ma

Collections (5 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Ypresian - Lutetian	56.0 - 41.03	Algeria (Bechar region)	Dralestes hammadaensis (77021) Tabelia hammadae, A. trerki (77015 77016) Tabelia hammadae, Dralestes hammadaensis, A. trerki (36612 77014)