| Chiromyiformes Temporal range: lateEocene to the present | |
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Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Mirorder: | Primatomorpha |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Strepsirrhini |
| Infraorder: | Chiromyiformes Anthony and Coupin, 1931 |
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Chiromyiformes is an infraorder ofstrepsirrhine primates that includes theaye-aye from Madagascar and its extinct relatives.
Theaye-aye is sometimes classified as a member ofLemuriformes, but others treat Chiromyiformes as a separate infraorder, based on their very reduced dental formula.[1] Gunnell et al. (2018) reclassified the putative batPropotto as a close relative of the aye-aye, as well as assigning the problematic strepsirrhine primatePlesiopithecus to Chiromyiformes.[2]
The molecular clock puts the divergence of Chiromyiformes and Lemuriformes at 50-49 million years ago.[1][3]
