Mammalia - Primates - Parapithecidae
Full reference: L. de Bonis, J.-J. Jaeger, B. Coiffat and P.-E. Coiffat. 1988. Decouverte du plus ancien primate catarrhinien connu dans l'Eocene superieur d'Afrique du Nord. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris (Serie II) 306:929-934
Parent taxon: Parapithecidae according to S. G. Mattingly et al. 2021
See also de Bonis et al. 1988, Gunnell and Miller 2001, Jaeger et al. 2010 and Seiffert et al. 2005
Sister taxa: Lokonepithecus, Parapithecinae, Qatraniinae
Subtaxa: Biretia fayumensis Biretia megalopsis Biretia piveteaui
Type: Biretia piveteaui
Ecology: arboreal omnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Algeria (1 collection), Egypt (1), Libya (1)
Total: 3 collections including 4 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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