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Views on the relationships of the Eocene non-adapid primates have flucutated moderately through time (Szalay 1975a). The creation of family concepts for the Omomyidae Trouessart, 1879 (including Anaptomorphidae Cope, 1883 and Microchoeridae Lydekker, 1887) signifies that these groups were previously recognized as distinct from the Adapidae Trouessart, 1879.
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Schmid, P. (1981). Comparison of Eocene Nonadapids and Tarsius. In: Chiarelli, A.B., Corruccini, R.S. (eds) Primate Evolutionary Biology. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68251-3_2
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