Paleontological work carried out over the last 3 decades has established that three major
primate groups were present in the Eocene of Africa—anthropoids, adapiforms, and …

Recent fossil discoveries have demonstrated that Africa and Asia were epicentres for the
origin and/or early diversification of the major living primate lineages, including both …

In this paper we report the first occurrence of an endemic African plesiadapiform primate
from the early-middle Eocene locality of Glib Zegdou (Hammada du Dra, Algeria). Dralestes …

The oldest euprimates known from India come from the Early Eocene Cambay Formation at
Vastan Mine in Gujarat. An Ypresian (early Cuisian) age of∼ 53Ma (based on foraminifera) …

Adapiform or 'adapoid'primates first appear in the fossil record in the earliest Eocene epoch
(∼ 55 million years (Myr) ago), and were common components of Palaeogene primate …

Caenopithecine adapiform primates are currently represented by two genera from the late
Eocene of Egypt (Afradapis and Aframonius) and one from the middle Eocene of …

Although advanced anthropoid primates (ie, Simiiformes) are recorded at the end of the
Eocene in North Africa (Proteopithecidae, Parapithecidae, and Oligopithecidae), the origin …

The last decade has witnessed enormous gains in our knowledge of early anthro‐poidean
primates, the oldest known relatives of monkeys, apes and humans. Recent fossil finds in …

We report a new Paleogene primate community discovered in the uppermost part of the
Samlat Formation outcropping on the continental shore of the Rio de Oro, east of the Dakhla …

A new Adapiform Primate from the locality of Chambi (Tunisia) is described and assigned to
Djebelemur martinezi gen. nov., sp. nov. Holotype CBI 33, fragment of left mandible with P/3 …