Pliopithecus Gervais 1849 (monkey)

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

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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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