"tarsioid" meaning in English

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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "1991, Hominidae, entry in Joan C. Stevenson, Dictionary of Concepts in Physical Anthropology, page 201,\nCope 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)."
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        "A tarsier or extinct relative; any member of the infraorder Tarsiiformes"
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          "Tarsiiformes",
          "Tarsiiformes#Translingual"
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