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''Adapoides'' is a genus of
adapiform Adapiformes is a group of early primates. Adapiforms radiated throughout much of the northern continental mass (now Europe, Asia and North America), reaching as far south as northern Africa and tropical Asia. They existed from the Eocene to the ...
primate Primates are a diverse order (biology), order of mammals. They are divided into the Strepsirrhini, strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the Haplorhini, haplorhines, which include the Tarsiiformes, tarsiers and ...
dating to the
Middle Eocene The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name ''Eocene'' comes from the Ancient Greek (''ēṓs'', "d ...
in Asia. It is represented by one species, ''Adapoides troglodytes''.


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Eocene mammals of Asia Prehistoric strepsirrhines Eocene primates Monotypic prehistoric primate genera Prehistoric primate genera Fossil taxa described in 1994 {{paleo-primate-stub