prosimians

They are members of a small group of primates called prosimians, which split off the evolutionary tree about 63 million years ago from simians, a grouping of primates that includes gorillas, chimpanzees, Old World monkeys and humans.

Wired Top Stories Dave Mosher 2011

He describes fossils of the first prosimians in the Eocene, the rodent-sized Teilhardina and Cantius, and gives room to Aegyptopithecus the "dawn ape" that lived some 35 million years ago and preceded the split between apes and Old World monkeys, and who might actually have a stronger claim to the "missing link" mantle.

Long Lost Relative 2009

It shows characteristics from the very primitive non-human evolutionary line (prosimians, such as lemurs), but is more related to the human evolutionary line (anthropoids, such as monkeys, apes and humans), said Norwegian paleontologist Jørn Hurum of University of Oslo Natural History Museum.

47 Million Year Old Primate Fossil Discovered | Impact Lab 2009

Other primate species include black-and-white colobus Colobus guereza, red-tailed guenon C. ascanius schmidti, blue guenon C. mitis mitis, vervet C. aethiops, and olive baboon Papio anubis plus nocturnal prosimians.

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda 2009

Tarsier traits in common with lemurs, busbabies and other prosimians:

Pygmy tarsier, a monkey that defies categorization, not extinct afterall! Field Notes 2008

One classification system puts them with monkeys, another with prosimians, but yet another gives them a category all their own.

Pygmy tarsier, a monkey that defies categorization, not extinct afterall! Field Notes 2008

Studies of prosimians made in similar forests in other areas are reported on by Petter and Charles-Dominique, and of birds by Milon.

Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve, Madagascar 2008

Perhaps this is because at night, when most prosimians are active, it is either impossible to communicate visually or downright dangerous to communicate out loud.

Pygmy tarsier, a monkey that defies categorization, not extinct afterall! Field Notes 2008

Perhaps this is because at night, when most prosimians are active, it is either impossible to communicate visually or downright dangerous to communicate out loud.

Archive 2008-12-01 Field Notes 2008

And, primatologists say the tarsier falls somewhere between the prosimians lemurs, busbabies and monkeys on the evolutionary scale.

Pygmy tarsier, a monkey that defies categorization, not extinct afterall! Field Notes 2008