Description

Late Eocene (Ludian)

Phosphorites de Quercy

La Bouffie, Quercy, France

Very rare 9mm x 9mm primate tooth with full roots. One of the best we have had.

Mammal, Primate.

Leptadapis was one of the larger Late Eocene lemur-like adapid primates, larger and more robust than the modern ring-tailed lemur, weighing perhaps 8-9kg (around 17-20lbs).  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.

Leptadapis is a genus of the Family Adapidae, a group of Mid-Late Eocene primates known from Europe.  The adapids were similar to lemurs but apparently left no modern descendants.