tarsioid

plural tarsioids

1. A tarsier or extinct relative; any member of the infraorder Tarsiiformes

   The living Tarsius, of Southeast Asia, is a lone leftover of a once diverse group of small primates, the tarsioids, which flourished during the Eocene in Europe, Asia, and North America.

   1989, Pat Vickers Rich, Thomas H. V. Rich, Mildred Adams Fenton, Carroll Lane Fenton, The Fossil Book: A Record of Prehistoric Life, Revised edition, page 553

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   Among the short-lived northerners were Metacheiromys, whose South American cousins survive today in the order of armadillos, anteaters and sloths, and the early primates — lemurs like Notharctus and tarsioids like Tetonius.

   1953 October 19, Lincoln Barnett, “The Age of Mammals”, in LIFE, page 95

   1991, Hominidae, entry in Joan C. Stevenson, Dictionary of Concepts in Physical Anthropology, page 201, Cope derived anthropoids from an extinct fossil tarsioid; he suggested that apes and humans evolved from a prosimian and skipped the monkey stage. Hubrecht noted that tarsioids were different from lemurs and more like higher primates (monkeys, apes, and humans).