what was babakotia?
It is an extinct genus of medium-sized lemurr, or strepsirrhine primate.
Babakotia
Babakotia is an extinct genus of medium-sized lemur, or strepsirrhine primate, from Madagascar that contains a single species, Babakotia radofilai.
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Babakotia [SEP] Introduction
Babakotia is an extinct genus of medium-sized lemur, or strepsirrhine primate, from Madagascar that contains a single species, Babakotia radofilai. Together with "Palaeopropithecus", "Archaeoindris", and "Mesopropithecus", it forms the family Palaeopropithecidae, commonly known as the sloth lemurs. The name "Babakotia" comes from the Malagasy name for the indri, "babakoto", to which it and all other sloth lemurs are closely related. Due to its mix of morphological traits that show intermediate stages between the slow-moving smaller sloth lemurs and the suspensory large sloth lemurs, it has helped determine the relationship between both groups and the closely related and extinct monkey lemurs.