Name - Plesiadapiformes

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:321268 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Plesiadapiformes Simons & Tattersall 1972

• Plesiadapiformes Simons & Tattersall in Simons 1972

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Suborder

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• FIRST OCCURRENCE OF PLESIADAPIFORM PRIMATES FROM THE CHADRONIAN (LATEST EOCENE).
• A new species of the basal plesiadapiform Purgatorius (Mammalia, Primates) from the early Paleocene Ravenscrag Formation, Cypress Hills, southwest Saskatchewan, Canada: further taxonomic and dietary diversity in the earliest Primates.
• Oldest skeleton of a plesiadapiform provides additional evidence for an exclusively arboreal radiation of stem Primates in the Palaeocene.
• The evolutionary radiation of plesiadapiforms.
• Earliest Palaeocene purgatoriids and the initial radiation of stem Primates.

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