Parapithecus
| †Parapithecus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorrhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes (Anthropoidea) |
| Family: | †Parapithecidae |
| Genus: | †Parapithecus Schlosser, 1910 |
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Parapithecus is an extinct genus of primate that lived during the Earliest Oligocene in what is now Egypt. Its members are considered to be basal anthropoids and the genus is closely related to Apidium. There are two known species.
Bibliography
- K. Christopher Beard: Basal anthropoids. In Hartwig, Walter, ed. (2002. Reprinted 2004). The Primate Fossil Record. Cambridge University Press, pp. 133-149. ISBN 978-0-521-08141-2 Check date values in:
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