Sivaladapidae is an

extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...

family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...

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 ...

s from Asia. They survived longer than any other adapiform primate because they were able to shift south as the climate cooled. Their remains date from the

Eocene The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), Era. The name ''Eocene' ...

through the

Miocene The Miocene ( ) is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and means "less recen ...

Classification

*Family Sivaladapidae **Subfamily Sivaladapinae **Subfamily Hoanghoniinae **Subfamily Anthradapinae ***Genus '' Anthradapis'' **''incertae sedis'' ***Genus '' Guangxilemur'' ***Genus '' Kyitchaungia'' ***Genus '' Laomaki'' ***Genus '' Paukkaungia'' ***Genus '' Ramadapis'' ***Genus '' Siamoadapis'' ***Genus '' Yunnanodapis''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5412097 Prehistoric strepsirrhines Eocene first appearances Miocene extinctions Primate families Prehistoric mammal families