Wailekia
Extinct genus of primates
Wailekia Temporal range: Late Eocene | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
Family: | †Sivaladapidae |
Genus: | †Wailekia Ducrocq et al., 1995 |
Species: | †W. orientale |
Binomial name | |
†Wailekia orientale Ducrocq et al., 1995 |
Wailekia is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in Asia during the late Eocene.[1]
References
Literature cited
- Gebo, D.L. (2002). "Adapiformes: Phylogeny and adaptation". In Hartwig, W.C. (ed.). The Primate Fossil Record. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-08141-2. OCLC 47254191.
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Strepsirrhini
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Primates
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- See also: Adapiformes
- Subfossil lemur