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Afrotarsiidae
Taxonomy
Afrotarsiidae was named by Ginsburg and Mein (1987) [The family Afrotarsiidae was erected in a nonchalant fashion in this paper, on p. 1215: "Il [Afrotarsius] represente une famille a part, les Afrotarsiidae nov., caracterisee par des molaires inferieurs primitives d'un type proche des m1 et m2 de Tarsius, mais a m3 morphologiquement identique a m1 et m2, et plus petite." ]. It is not extant. It was considered monophyletic by Chaimanee et al. (2012).
It was assigned to Anthropoidea by Jaeger et al. (2010); and to Anthropoidea by Kay et al. (2004) and Chaimanee et al. (2012).
It was assigned to Anthropoidea by Jaeger et al. (2010); and to Anthropoidea by Kay et al. (2004) and Chaimanee et al. (2012).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1987 | Afrotarsiidae Ginsburg and Mein |
| 2004 | Afrotarsiidae Kay et al. p. 100 |
| 2010 | Afrotarsiidae Jaeger et al. |
| 2012 | Afrotarsiidae Chaimanee et al. |
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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.
Fm. †Afrotarsiidae Ginsburg and Mein 1987
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G. †Afrotarsius Simons and Bown 1985
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†Afrotarsius chatrathi Simons and Bown 1985
†Afrotarsius libycus Jaeger et al. 2010
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available