Siamoadapis
Name:
Siamoadapis.
Phonetic: Sy-am-o-dapiss.
Named By: Y. Chaimanee, C. Yamee, P.
Tian, O. Chavasseau & J. -J. Jaeger - 2008.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia, Primates,
Strepsirrhini, Sivaladapidae.
Species: S. maemohensis
(type).
Diet: Omnivore?
Size: Uncertain but roughly estimated to have been
about 15 centimetres long.
Known locations: Thailand, Lampang Province.
Time period: Mid-Miocene.
Fossil representation: 4 lower jaws with teeth.
Siamoadapis is a genus of small primate that lived in Thailand during the mid Miocene.
Further reading
- First middle Miocene sivaladapid primate from Thailand. -
Journal of Human Evolution 54 (3): 434–443. - Y.
Chaimanee, C. Yamee, P. Tian, O. Chavasseau &
J. -J. Jaeger - 2008.
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