Some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins

• Probably gave rise to the tarsiers
• Extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects
• Abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago

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n. (context zoology English) Any member of the family ''(taxlink Omomyidae family noshow=1)'', a diverse group of extinct primates.