NOMBRE | animal | adápidos | extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit |
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Sentido | Extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins. | |
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Miembro de | primates | An animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings |
General | taxon, taxón | animal or plant group having natural relations |
Inglés | Adapid, Adapid group |
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