Adapis collinsonae Hooker 1986 (primate)

Mammalia - Primates - Adapidae

Alternative combination: Europolemur collinsonae

Full reference: J. J. Hooker. 1986. Mammals from the Bartonian (middle/late Eocene) of the Hampshire Basin, southern England. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 39(4):191-478

Belongs to Adapis according to M. Godinot 1998

See also Franzen 2004 and Hooker 1986

Sister taxa: Adapis parisiensis, Adapis stintoni, Adapis sudrei

Type specimen: BMNH M37169, a tooth. Its type locality is Creechbarrow Hill, which is in a Bartonian marine marl/marl in the Creechbarrow Limestone Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: arboreal herbivore

Distribution: found only at Creechbarrow Hill

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