†Apidium Osborn 1908 (monkey)
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Mammalia - Primates - Parapithecidae
Full reference: H. F. Osborn. 1908. New fossil mammals from the Fayûm Oligocene, Egypt. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24(16):265-272
Parent taxon: Qatraniinae according to S. G. Mattingly et al. 2021
See also Beard et al. 2016, McKenna and Bell 1997, Seiffert et al. 2005, Simons 1960 and Simons and Kay 1983
Sister taxa: Qatrania, Ucayalipithecus
Subtaxa: Apidium bowni Apidium kraeusei Apidium moustafai Apidium phiomense Apidium phiomensis Apidium zuetina
Type: Apidium kraeusei
Ecology: arboreal omnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Egypt (5 collections), Libya (1), Oman (1)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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