Mammalia - Primates - Proteopithecidae

Full reference: E. L. Simons. 1989. Description of two genera and species of Late Eocene Anthropoidea from Egypt. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 86:9956-9960

Belongs to Proteopithecus according to E. L. Simons 1997

See also Simons 1989 and Simons et al. 1999

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CGM 41886, a maxilla (left maxillary framgent with M1-3 and associated P3). Its type locality is Quarry L-41 (Jebel Qatrani Formation), which is in a Rupelian lacustrine mudstone in the Jebel Qatrani Formation of Egypt.

Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution: found only at Quarry L-41 (Jebel Qatrani Formation)

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