Kingdom Animalia Suborder Strepsirrhini Family †Asiadapidae Phylum Chordata Order Primate | Class Mammalia Infraorder Adapiformes Scientific name Anthrasimias gujaratensis Rank Genus | |
Species †A. gujaratensis
Bajpai et al., 2008 Similar Primate, Algeripithecus, Eosimias | ||
Anthrasimias gujaratensis was a species of primate first found in Gujarat, India in 2008. Anthrasimias is believed to have lived about 55 million years ago, during the early Eocene. It weighed around 75 grams which would make it only slightly larger than the world's smallest primates, the mouse lemurs and the dwarf galagos.
Anthrasimias or Marcgodinotius indicus is the oldest known member in the family Asiadapidae
The generic name, Anthrasimias, refers to anthra, Greek for coal, because the fossils were found in a coal mine and simias, Latin for monkey or ape.
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