| 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.
Classification
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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]
Evolution
[edit]The molecular clock puts the divergence of Chiromyiformes and Lemuriformes at 50-49 million years ago.[1][3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Birx, James, 2010. 21st Century Anthropology. SAGE Publications.
- ^ Gregg F. Gunnell; Doug M. Boyer; Anthony R. Friscia; Steven Heritage; Fredrick Kyalo Manthi; Ellen R. Miller; Hesham M. Sallam; Nancy B. Simmons; Nancy J. Stevens; Erik R. Seiffert (2018). "Fossil lemurs from Egypt and Kenya suggest an African origin for Madagascar's aye-aye". Nature Communications. 9: Article number 3193. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05648-w.
- ^ Springer MS, Meredith RW, Gatesy J, Emerling CA, Park J, Rabosky DL, et al. (2012) Macroevolutionary Dynamics and Historical Biogeography of Primate Diversification Inferred from a Species Supermatrix. PLoS ONE 7(11): e49521. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049521
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