<==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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