Purgatoriidae
Sign in to savePurgatoriidae is a basal plesiadapiform family that includes Purgatorius and Ursolestes. Purgatoriids are thought to represent the earliest members of the Plesiadapiformes – as well as primates.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 781
- Family
- Purgatoriidae
- Collections
- UCMP
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Plesiadapiformes
- Image
- Purgatorius PNAS.jpg
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- Purgatoriidae
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Purgatoriidae is a basal plesiadapiform family that includes Purgatorius and Ursolestes. Purgatoriids are thought to represent the earliest members of the Plesiadapiformes – as well as primates.
== References ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Purgatoriidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.