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Post  lynk2510 Wed Jul 06, 2011 12:15 am

By modern cladistic reckoning, . Suborder Strepsirrhini, the curly-nosed or "wet-nosed" primates, is generally thought to have split off from the primitive primate line about 63 mya,[15] although earlier dates are also supported.[16] The seven strepsirhine families are the five related lemur families and the two remaining families that include the lorisids and the galagos.[1][17] Older classification schemes wrap Lepilemuridae into Lemuridae and Galagidae into Lorisidae, yielding a four-one family distribution instead of five-two as presented here.[1] During the Eocene, most of the northern continents were dominated by two groups, the adapiforms and the omomyids.[18][19] The former are considered members of Strepsirrhini, but did not have a toothcomb like modern lemurs; recent analysis has suggested Darwinius masillae fits into this grouping.[20] The latter was related closely to tarsiers, monkeys, and apes. It is unclear exactly how these two groups relate to extant primates. Omomyids perished about 30 mya,[19] while adapids survived until about 10 mya.[21]
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