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Categories: Prehistoric primates, Oligocene extinctions, Paraphyletic groups, Paleocene first appearances, Oligocene primates
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Omomyid  Omomyid group  Omomyidae  omomyids  Omomyiform
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Extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; probably gave rise to the tarsiers; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins WordNet 3.0
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Extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; probably gave rise to the tarsiers; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Omomyidae is a group of early primates that radiated during the Eocene epoch between about 55 to 34 million years ago. Wikipedia
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