| Europolemur klatti Temporal range: Eocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
| Family: | †Adapidae |
| Genus: | †Europolemur |
| Species: | †E. klatti
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| †Europolemur klatti Weigelt, 1933
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Europolemur klatti was a medium to large size adapiformes primate that lived on the continent of Europe from the middle to early Eocene. One possible relative to this species is Margarita stevensi, whose type specimen is about the size of a white-footed sportive lemur (Lepilemur leucopus).[1] Characteristic of most adapines are the reduced or absence of a paraconid and morphology of the paracristid. These and a few other features are synapomorphies that were used to link E. klatti with Leptadapis priscus and Microadapis sciureus, as well as Smilodectes.[2]
- ^ Wilson, J. A.; Szalay, F. S. (1976). "New adapid primate of European affinities from Texas". Folia Primatologica. 25 (4): 294–312. doi:10.1159/000155722. PMID 819339.
- ^ Covert, H. H. (1990). "Phylogenetic relationships among the Notharctinae of North America". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 81 (3): 381–397. doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330810308. PMID 2109538.