The first species to be named, Afrotarsius chatrathi, was named in 1985 on the basis of a single lower jaw from the Oligocene of Fayum, Egypt, and tentatively referred to the tarsier family (Tarsiidae).Шаблон:Sfn However, this relationship immediately proved controversial, and in 1987 the animal was placed in a separate family Afrotarsiidae related to simians.Шаблон:Sfn A tarsier-like tibiofibula was allocated to Afrotarsius in 1998,Шаблон:Sfn but the identity of this bone is controversial.Шаблон:Sfn In 2010, a second species of the genus, Afrotarsius libycus, was named from the Eocene of Dur At-Talah, Libya, on the basis of isolated upper and lower teeth. Features of these teeth were interpreted as additional evidence for a relationship between Afrotarsius and anthropoids.Шаблон:Sfn A second afrotarsiid genus, Afrasia, was named in 2012 from the Eocene Pondaung Formation of Myanmar. In the same paper, Afrotarsiidae was placed together with the Asian Eosimiidae in an infraorder Eosimiiformes, in the simians.Шаблон:Sfn[1] However, some studies indicate that it should be placed in Tarsiiformes.Шаблон:Clear-left
