Mammal
Megaladapis
Megaladapis was a large extinct lemur with a distinctive long face and a heavy climbing body.
Megaladapis was a large extinct lemur with a distinctive long face and a heavy climbing body. It was a primate, despite sometimes receiving comparisons with very different leaf-eating mammals.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Megaladapis at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Its feeding anatomy is interpreted as adapted to plant food.
- When it lived
- Pleistocene and Holocene
- Group
- Megaladapidae
- Megaladapidae
Beyond the game
The real Megaladapis
Megaladapis was a large extinct lemur with a distinctive long face and a heavy climbing body. It was a primate, despite sometimes receiving comparisons with very different leaf-eating mammals.
The selected species is Megaladapis edwardsi. Its skull, grasping hands and feet belonged to a lemur despite comparisons with other heavy leaf-eating mammals.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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