| Duke University
Lemur Center Division of Fossil Primates |
| JI Bloch and DM Boyer, Science 298, 22 November 2001, p 1607. |
| This figure compares a plesiadapoid (center) with a tree shrew on the left and an undoubted primate tarsius on the right. Similarities and differences with euprimates are discussed in the caption. Note at C. that the distal phalanx of Carpolestes supported a flat nail as in euprimates. |