Plesiadapiformes

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iPlesiadapiformes
Fossil range: Early Paleocene - Late Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Subclass: Eutheria
(unranked) Euarchontoglires
Superorder: Euarchonta
Order: Plesiadapiformes
Simons & Tattersall, 1972
Families
  • Micromomyidae
  • Paromomyidae
  • Picromomyidae
  • Palaechthonidae
  • Picrodontidae
  • Microsyopidae
  • Chronolestidae
  • Plesiadapidae
  • Carpolestidae

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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