Until discoveries of three 40-million-year-old fossil lorisoids ("Karanisia", "Saharagalago", and "Wadilemur") in the El Fayum deposits of Egypt between 1997 and 2005, the oldest known lemuriforms had come from the early Miocene (~20 mya) of Kenya and Uganda. These newer finds demonstrate that lemuriform primates were present during the middle Eocene in Afro-Arabia and that the lemuriform lineage and all other strepsirrhine taxa had diverged before then. "Djebelemur" from Tunisia dates to the late early or early middle Eocene (52 to 46 mya) and has been considered a cercamoniine, but also may have been a stem lemuriform. Azibiids from Algeria date to roughly the same time and may be a sister group of the djebelemurids. Together with "Plesiopithecus" from the late Eocene Egypt, the three may qualify as the stem lemuriforms from Africa.