Description

Middle Eocene (Lower Lutetian)

Robiac, Languedoc-Roussillon Region, France

5mm tooth.

Mammal, Primate.

Adapis is a genus of primate of the Family Adapidae, a group of Mid-Late Eocene primates known from Europe.  Studies of its postcranial skeleton reveal it was probably more of a slow climber like a modern loris rather than a runner and leaper like a modern lemur.

This primate lived at a time when tropical forests were disappearing in North America and Europe and once-common primates were disappearing with them.