Mammalia - Primates - Proteopithecidae
Full reference: E. L. Simons. 1997. Preliminary description of the cranium of Proteopithecus sylviae, an Egyptian late Eocene anthropoidean primate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 94:14970-14975
Parent taxon: Anthropoidea according to E. R. Seiffert et al. 2005
See also Simons 1997 and Simons et al. 1999
Sister taxa: Afrotarsiidae, Amamria, Amphipithecidae, Arctopithecini, Aseanpithecus, Catarrhini, Eosimiidae, Neopithecini, Oligopithecidae, Paleopithecini, Parapithecoidea, Perupithecus, Platyrrhini, Protoanthropoidea, Aotidae, Notnamaia
Subtaxa: Proteopithecus Serapia
Type: Proteopithecus
Ecology: arboreal omnivore
Distribution: found only at Quarry L-41 (Jebel Qatrani Formation) (Oligocene of Egypt)