†Pliopithecus Gervais 1849 (monkey)
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Mammalia - Primates - Pliopithecidae
Parent taxon: Pliopithecini according to T. Harrison and Y. Gu 1999
See also Alba et al. 2009, Ciochon and Corruccini 1977, Harrison et al. 1991, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Schlosser 1877
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Pliopithecus (Epipliopithecus) Pliopithecus antiquus Pliopithecus canmatensis Pliopithecus platyodon Pliopithecus vindobonensis Pliopithecus zhanxiangi
Type: Pithecus antiquus
Ecology: arboreal omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of China (2 collections), France (6), Germany (2), Poland (2), Slovakia (2), Switzerland (1)
Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence
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