Paromomyidae
Appearance
Paromomyidae | |
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Restoration of Ignacius graybullianus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Plesiadapiformes |
Family: | †Paromomyidae Simpson, 1940[1] |
Genera | |
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Paromomyidae is a family of mammals that may include the earliest primates, or taxa closely related to them.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Bloch, Jonathan I.; Silcox, Mary T.; Boyer, Doug M.; Sargis, Eric J. (January 23, 2007). "New Paleocene skeletons and the relationship of plesiadapiforms to crown-clade primates". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104 (4): 1159–1164. doi:10.1073/pnas.0610579104. PMC 1783133. PMID 17229835.