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

Parent taxon: Proteopithecidae according to E. R. Seiffert et al. 2005

See also Gunnell and Miller 2001, Simons 1989, Simons 1997 and Simons et al. 1999

Sister taxon: Serapia

Subtaxa: Proteopithecus sylviae

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Type: Proteopithecus sylviae

Ecology: arboreal omnivore

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

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