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Azibiidae is an extinct family of fossil primate from the late early or early middle Eocene from the Glib Zegdou Formation in the Gour Lazib area of Algeria. They are thought to be related to the living toothcombed primates, the lemurs and lorisoids (known as strepsirrhines), although paleoanthropologists such as have argued that they may be early simians (monkeys and apes). It includes the genera Azibius and Algeripithecus, the latter of which was originally considered the oldest known simian, not a strepsirrhine.

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  • أعزبيات أو لعزبيات (باللاتينية: Azibiidae) هي فصيلة مُنقرضة من الرئيسيات الأحفورية في أواخر العصر الإيوسيني المُبكر أو أوائل المُتوسط، والتي عاشت في منطقة جور لاعزب في الجزائر. ويُعتقد أنها ترتبط بالحيوانات الرئيسية ذات المشط السني مثل الليموريات ولوريسيات الشكل، المعروفة باسم الهباريات، على الرغم من أن علماء دراسة مُستحاثات أسلاف البشر، مثل مارك جودنوت، قد جادلوا بأنهم ربما يكونوا سعالي بدائية. (ar)
  • Azibiidae is an extinct family of fossil primate from the late early or early middle Eocene from the Glib Zegdou Formation in the Gour Lazib area of Algeria. They are thought to be related to the living toothcombed primates, the lemurs and lorisoids (known as strepsirrhines), although paleoanthropologists such as have argued that they may be early simians (monkeys and apes). It includes the genera Azibius and Algeripithecus, the latter of which was originally considered the oldest known simian, not a strepsirrhine. Originally described as a type of plesiadapiform (an extinct group of arboreal mammals considered to be a sister group to the primate clade), its fragmentary remains have been interpreted as a hyopsodontid (a type of extinct condylarth), an adapid (an extinct type of adapiform primate from Europe), and a macroscelidid (elephant shrews). Less fragmentary remains discovered between 2003 and 2009 demonstrated a close relationship between Azibius and Algeripithecus. Descriptions of the talus (ankle bone) in 2011 have helped to strengthen support for the strepsirrhine status of Azibius and Algeripithecus, which would indicate that the evolutionary history of lemurs and their kin is rooted in Africa. Likewise, if azibiids are simians, it would support the hypothesis that simians originated in Africa instead of Asia. Azibiids were small-bodied primates, with Algeripithecus minutus weighing between 65 and 85 g (2.3 and 3.0 oz), Azibius trerki weighing approximately 115 and 160 g (4.1 and 5.6 oz), and an unnamed species of Azibius being notably larger, weighing an estimated 630 to 920 g (22 to 32 oz). (en)
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  • Gingerich, 1976 (en)
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  • An Afro-Arabian clade of early strepsirrhines is thought to have given rise modern lemurs, lorises, and galagos. Azibiid taxonomy is still disputed. (en)
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  • Early to Middle Eocene (en)
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  • Algeripithecus (Godinot & Mahboubi, 1992) (en)
  • Azibius (Sudre, 1975) (en)
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  • Genera (en)
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  • Azibiidae (en)
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  • General phylogeny of strepsirrhines (en)
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  • أعزبيات أو لعزبيات (باللاتينية: Azibiidae) هي فصيلة مُنقرضة من الرئيسيات الأحفورية في أواخر العصر الإيوسيني المُبكر أو أوائل المُتوسط، والتي عاشت في منطقة جور لاعزب في الجزائر. ويُعتقد أنها ترتبط بالحيوانات الرئيسية ذات المشط السني مثل الليموريات ولوريسيات الشكل، المعروفة باسم الهباريات، على الرغم من أن علماء دراسة مُستحاثات أسلاف البشر، مثل مارك جودنوت، قد جادلوا بأنهم ربما يكونوا سعالي بدائية. (ar)
  • Azibiidae is an extinct family of fossil primate from the late early or early middle Eocene from the Glib Zegdou Formation in the Gour Lazib area of Algeria. They are thought to be related to the living toothcombed primates, the lemurs and lorisoids (known as strepsirrhines), although paleoanthropologists such as have argued that they may be early simians (monkeys and apes). It includes the genera Azibius and Algeripithecus, the latter of which was originally considered the oldest known simian, not a strepsirrhine. (en)
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  • Azibiidae (en)
  • أعزبيات (ar)
  • Azibiidae (uk)
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