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Adapidium
Taxonomy
Adapidium was named by Young (1937) [fossil from China]. Its type is Adapidium huanghoense.
It was assigned to Adaepidea by Young (1937); to Yuesthonychidae by Tong et al. (2003); to Tillodontia by Chow (1963) and Wang and Jin (2004); and to Esthonychidae by Gazin (1953), Carroll (1988) and Miyata (2007).
It was assigned to Adaepidea by Young (1937); to Yuesthonychidae by Tong et al. (2003); to Tillodontia by Chow (1963) and Wang and Jin (2004); and to Esthonychidae by Gazin (1953), Carroll (1988) and Miyata (2007).
Species
A. huanghoense (type species)
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1937 | Adapidium Young pp. 434-435 figs. p. 435, fig. 16 |
1953 | Adapidium Gazin p. 32 |
1963 | Adapidium Chow |
1988 | Adapidium Carroll |
2003 | Adapidium Tong et al. |
2004 | Adapidium Wang and Jin |
2007 | Adapidium Miyata p. 672 |
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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.
Diagnosis
Reference | Diagnosis | |
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C. Young 1937 | A lemuroid animal, in which the lower molars are essentially built as in Adapis, but more hypsodont (externally) and more selenodont. |
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Lucas and Schoch 1998 |
Age range: Sharamurunian or 56.00000 to 37.71000 Ma
Collections: one only
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Sharamurunian | China (Shanxi) | A. huanghoense (42197) |