Chiromyiformes Temporal range: late
Eocene to the present
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Mirorder: | Primatomorpha |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
Infraorder: |
Chiromyiformes Anthony and Coupin, 1931 |
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Chiromyiformes is an infraorder of strepsirrhine primates that includes the aye-aye from Madagascar and its extinct relatives.
The aye-aye is sometimes classified as a member of Lemuriformes, but others treat Chiromyiformes as a separate infraorder, based on their very reduced dental formula. [1] Gunnell et al. (2018) reclassified the putative bat Propotto as a close relative of the aye-aye, as well as assigning the problematic strepsirrhine primate Plesiopithecus to Chiromyiformes. [2]
The molecular clock puts the divergence of Chiromyiformes and Lemuriformes at 50-49 million years ago. [1] [3]
Chiromyiformes Temporal range: late
Eocene to the present
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Mirorder: | Primatomorpha |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
Infraorder: |
Chiromyiformes Anthony and Coupin, 1931 |
Families | |
Chiromyiformes is an infraorder of strepsirrhine primates that includes the aye-aye from Madagascar and its extinct relatives.
The aye-aye is sometimes classified as a member of Lemuriformes, but others treat Chiromyiformes as a separate infraorder, based on their very reduced dental formula. [1] Gunnell et al. (2018) reclassified the putative bat Propotto as a close relative of the aye-aye, as well as assigning the problematic strepsirrhine primate Plesiopithecus to Chiromyiformes. [2]
The molecular clock puts the divergence of Chiromyiformes and Lemuriformes at 50-49 million years ago. [1] [3]