Description

Eocene (Lower Lutetian)

Robiac, Languedoc-Roussillon Region, France

6mm tooth

Mammal, Primate

Adapis was a member 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 loris rather than a runner and leaper like a modern lemur.