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Re: My thoughts on _When Dinosaurs Roamed America_

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Demetrios M. Vital wrote:

> > Isn't _Purgatorius_ a plesiadapiform?  I thought these were closer to flying
> > lemurs than to primates.
>
> I'm waaay out of my league with this, but I thought lemurs *are*
> primates...?

Yes, but flying lemurs (a.k.a. colugos) are not lemurs! From what I have
seen, they are either the sister group to _Chiroptera_ (or just
_Megachiroptera_?) or basal primatomorphs, but not primates.

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