<==o †PLESIADAPIFORMES Simons & Tattersall in Simons, 1972 |--o †Purgatorius | |?- †P. ceratops | |-- †P. unio | `-- †P. janisae `--+-- †Pandemonium `--+-- †Palenochtha minor |-- †Micromomyidae |-- †MICROSYOPOIDEA Osborn and Wortman, 1892 [Microsyopidae Osborn and Wortman, 1892 sensu Hooker, Russell & Phélizon, 1999] `--+-- †Plesiadapidae Trouessart, 1897 sensu stricto `--+-- †Paromomyidae Simpson, 1940 [alternative view after McKenna & Bell, 1997] `-- PRIMATES (primates, monkeys & apes; kädelliset) Plesiadapiformes not treated by Hooker, Russell & Phélizon, 1999: †Palaechthonidae †Picrodontidae †Draconodus apertus †Picrodus silberlingi [Megapterna] †Zanycteris paleocenus †Chronolestinae †Chronolestes †C. simul †C. oriens [is NOT synonymous with Carpocristes oriens??] †Carpolestidae [alternative view after McKenna & Bell, 1997]
Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698
Carroll, R. L., 1988: Appendix. 594-648
in Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698
Hooker, J. J., Russell, D. E. & Phélizon, A., 1999:
A new family of Plesiadapiformes (Mammalia) from the
old world Lower Paleocene.
--Palaeontology: Vol. 42, #3, pp. 377-407
McKenna, M. C. & Bell, S. K., (eds.) 1997: Classification of mammals – above the species level.
–Columbia University Press, New York, 1997, xii-631
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