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Plesiadapiformes after Hooker, Russell & Phélizon, 1999

 
<==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:

    †PalaechthonidaePicrodontidaeDraconodus apertusPicrodus silberlingi [Megapterna]
        †Zanycteris paleocenusChronolestinaeChronolestesC. simulC. oriens [is NOT synonymous with Carpocristes oriens??]
    †Carpolestidae  [alternative view after McKenna & Bell, 1997]


Reference(s):

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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