Europolemur
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Europolemur is a genus of adapiform primates that lived in Europe during the middle Eocene.
==Morphology== thumb|left|Europolemur koenigswaldi fossil Europolemur klatti is part of a group of long-digited fossils that most likely approximates early euprimate hand proportions. E. klatti has a grasping hallux and there is evidence that it may have had nails rather than claws. This implies that stabilizing the tips of the digits and hand must in some way have been important for its lifestyle in its habitat. Relative to the forearm, the hand of E. klatti was large, which may be related to vertical climbing or posture. The shape of the calcaneus resembles that found in Smilodectes and Notharctus. E. klatti had an average body mass of 1.7 kilograms.