Plesiadapiformes

Information about Plesiadapiformes

Plesiadapiformes
Fossil range: Latest Cretaceous - Late Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Infraclass:Eutheria
Superorder:Euarchontoglires
Order:Plesiadapiformes
Simons & Tattersall, 1972
Families


Plesiadapiformes is an extinct order of mammals and are either closely related to the primates, or are the pre-cursor to them.

Euarchontoglires
Glires

Rodentia (rodents)


 Lagomorpha (rabbits, hares, pikas)


Euarchonta

Scandentia (treeshrews)

Dermoptera (flying lemurs)

†Plesiadapiformes


 Primates







One possible classification table of plesiadapiform families is listed below.
  • ORDER PLESIADAPIFORMES
  • Family Micromomyidae
  • Superfamily Paramomyoidea
  • Family Paromomyidae
  • Family Picromomyidae
  • Family Palaechthonidae
  • Family Picrodontidae
  • Family Microsyopidae
  • Superfamily Plesiadapoidea
  • Family Chronolestidae
  • Family Plesiadapidae
  • Superfamily Carpolestoidea
  • Family Carpolestidae

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The Cretaceous Period is one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, reaching from the end of the Jurassic Period (i.e. from 145.5 ± 4.0 million years ago (Ma)) to the beginning of the Paleocene epoch of the Tertiary Period (about 65.5 ± 0.3 Ma).
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The Eocene epoch (55.8 ± 0.2 - 33.9 ± 0.1 Ma) is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Palaeogene period in the Cenozoic era. The Eocene spans the time from the end of the Paleocene epoch to the beginning of the Oligocene epoch.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Mammalia
Linnaeus, 1758

Subclasses & Infraclasses
  • Subclass †Allotheria*
  • Subclass Prototheria
  • Subclass Theria

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Eutheria

Orders[1]
  • Bobolestes
  • Eomaia
  • Maelestes
  • Montanalestes
  • Murtoilestes
  • Prokennalestes
  • Placentalia
  • Superorder

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Euarchontoglires

Orders
  • Glires
  • Rodentia
  • Lagomorpha
  • Euarchonta
  • Dermoptera

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1940s  1950s  1960s  - 1970s -  1980s  1990s  2000s
1969 1970 1971 - 1972 - 1973 1974 1975

Year 1972 (MCMLXXII
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family (Latin: familia, plural familiae) is a rank, or a taxon in that rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Code which applies.
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Plesiadapidae
Trouessart, 1897
Subfamily: †Plesiadapinae
(Trouessart, 1897)

Genera

†Pronothodectes
†Chiromyoides
†Nannodectes
†Plesiadapis
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Carpolestidae
Simpson, 1935

Genera

†Parvocristes
†Elphidotarsius
†Carpodaptes
†Carpolestes
†Carpomegodon

Carpolestidae
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order (Latin: ordo, plural ordines) is a rank between class and family (termed a taxon at that rank). The superorder is a rank between class and order. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Code which applies.
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Mammalia
Linnaeus, 1758

Subclasses & Infraclasses
  • Subclass †Allotheria*
  • Subclass Prototheria
  • Subclass Theria

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Primates
Linnaeus, 1758

Families
  • 15, See classification
A primate is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all the species commonly related to the lemurs, monkeys, and apes, with the last category
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Euarchontoglires

Orders
  • Glires
  • Rodentia
  • Lagomorpha
  • Euarchonta
  • Dermoptera

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Glires

Orders
  • Rodentia
  • Lagomorpha
Glires (Latin glīrēs, dormice) is a clade consisting of rodents and lagomorphs (rabbits, hares, and pikas).
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Rodentia
Bowdich, 1821

Suborders

Sciuromorpha
Castorimorpha
Myomorpha
Anomaluromorpha
Hystricomorpha
Rodentia is an order of mammals also known as rodents
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Lagomorpha
Brandt, 1855

Families

Leporidae
Ochotonidae
Prolagidae (extinct)
The Lagomorphs, order Lagomorpha, are an order of mammals of which there are two families, Leporidae (hares and rabbits), and Ochotonidae (pikas).
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Euarchonta

Orders
 Dermoptera
 Scandentia
 Plesiadapiformes (extinct)
 Primates
The Euarchonta are a superorder of mammals containing four orders: the Dermoptera or colugos, the Scandentia or treeshrews, the extinct Plesiadapiformes,
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Scandentia
Wagner, 1855

Families
  • Tupaiidae
  • Ptilocercidae


The treeshrews (or tree shrews) are small mammals native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asia.
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Dermoptera
Illiger, 1811

Family: Cynocephalidae
Simpson, 1945

Genera & Species

Cynocephalus
  • Cynocephalus volans
Galeopterus
  • Galeopterus variegatus

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Primates
Linnaeus, 1758

Families
  • 15, See classification
A primate is any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all the species commonly related to the lemurs, monkeys, and apes, with the last category
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Plesiadapidae
Trouessart, 1897
Subfamily: †Plesiadapinae
(Trouessart, 1897)

Genera

†Pronothodectes
†Chiromyoides
†Nannodectes
†Plesiadapis
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Carpolestidae
Simpson, 1935

Genera

†Parvocristes
†Elphidotarsius
†Carpodaptes
†Carpolestes
†Carpomegodon

Carpolestidae
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Carpolestidae
Simpson, 1935

Genera

†Parvocristes
†Elphidotarsius
†Carpodaptes
†Carpolestes
†Carpomegodon

Carpolestidae
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