Lazibadapis

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Lazibadapis
Temporal range: Lutetian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Strepsirrhini
Family: Djebelemuridae
Genus: Lazibadapis
Species:
L. anchomomyinopsis
Binomial name
Lazibadapis anchomomyinopsis
Marivaux et al., 2025

Lazibadapis is an extinct genus of djebelemurid primate that lived in Algeria during the Lutetian stage of the Eocene epoch.

Description

The type species, Lazibadapis anchomomyinopsis, had a body mass on the order of 100 grammes. [1]

References

  1. Marivaux, Laurent; Charruault, Anne-Lise; Adaci, Mohammed; Bensalah, Mustapha; Mahboubi, Mahammed; Mebrouk, Fateh; Ammar, Hayet Khayati; Essid, El Mabrouk; Marzougui, Wissem; Temani, Rim; Tabuce, Rodolphe (September 2025). "New insights into the diversity of strepsirrhine primates from the late early–early middle Eocene of North Africa (Algeria and Tunisia)". Journal of Human Evolution . 206: 103729. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103729 . Retrieved 8 January 2026 via Elsevier Science Direct.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)