Adapiformes

Adapiformes are an extinct group of primitive primates. The adapiformes dominated much of the northern continents, reaching as far south as northern Africa and tropical Asia. The adapiformes existed from the Eocene epoch to the Miocene epoch. Most of the adapiformes looked similar to living lemurs.

The adapiforms are known from the fossil record only, and it is unclear whether they form a suborder proper, or a paraphyletic grouping. They are usually grouped under the Strepsirrhini semiorder and would as such be ancestral to the lemurs, but not to the Haplorrhini semiorder including monkeys and apes.

Franzen et al. (2009) place the newly-described Darwinius genus in the  "Adapoidea group of early primates representative of early haplorhine diversification" so that according to these authors, the adapiforms would not be entirely within the Strepsirrhini lineage as hitherto assumed but qualify as a "missing link" between Strepsirrhini and Haplorrhini.

Classification

 * Family Notharctidae
 * Subfamily Cercamoniinae
 * Genus Anchomomys
 * Genus Buxella
 * Genus Darwinius
 * Genus Donrussellia
 * Genus Europolemur
 * Genus Mahgarita
 * Genus Panobius
 * Genus Periconodon
 * Genus Pronycticebus
 * Subfamily Notharctinae
 * Genus Cantius
 * Genus Copelemur
 * Genus Hesperolemur
 * Genus Notharctus
 * Genus Pelycodus
 * Genus Smilodectes
 * Family Sivaladapidae
 * Genus Kyitchaungia
 * Genus Paukkaungia
 * Genus Siamoadapis
 * Genus Sivaladapis
 * Family Adapidae
 * Genus Adapis
 * Genus Adapoides
 * Genus Leptadapis
 * Genus Godinotia
 * Family Incertae sedis
 * Genus Omanodon
 * Genus Muangthanhinius