| Monkey lemur Temporal range:
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| Archaeolemur majori skulls | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
| Superfamily: | Lemuroidea |
| Family: | †Archaeolemuridae G. Grandidier, 1905[1][2] |
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The monkey lemurs[3] or baboon lemurs[4] (Archaeolemuridae) are a recently extinct family of lemurs known from skeletal remains from sites on Madagascar dated to 1000 to 3000 years ago.[4]
The monkey lemur family is divided into two genera, Hadropithecus and Archaeolemur, and three species.
- ^ http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=40786 [bare URL]
- ^ Tattersal, Ian (1973). "Cranial anatomy of the Archaeolemurinae (Lemuroidea, Primates)". Anthropological Papers of the AMNH. 52: 23. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
- ^ Mittermeier, Russell A.; et al. (2006). Lemurs of Madagascar (2nd ed.). Conservation International. p. 43. ISBN 1-881173-88-7.
- ^ a b Nowak, Ronald M. (1999). Walker's Primates of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 91–92. ISBN 0-8018-6251-5.