''Leptadapis'' is a genus of

adapiform Adapiformes is a group of early primates. Adapiforms radiated throughout much of the northern continental mass (now Europe, Asia and North America), reaching as far south as northern Africa and tropical Asia. They existed from the Eocene to the M ...

primate Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys and apes, the latter including huma ...

that lived in Europe during the middle

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. Fossils of the genus have been found in the Escanilla Formation of Spain and

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in Switzerland.''Leptadapis''
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* Prehistoric strepsirrhines Prehistoric primate genera Eocene primates Bartonian life Eocene mammals of Europe Paleogene Spain Fossils of Spain Paleogene Switzerland Fossils of Switzerland Fossil taxa described in 1876 {{paleo-primate-stub