Arsinoea Simons 1992 (monkey)

Mammalia - Primates

Full reference: E. L. Simons. 1992. Diversity in the early Tertiary anthropoidean radiation in Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 89:10743-10747

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

See also Gunnell and Miller 2001, Kay and Williams 1994, Simons 1992 and Simons et al. 2001

Sister taxon: Parapithecidae

Subtaxa: Arsinoea kallimos

View classification

Type: Arsinoea kallimos

Ecology: arboreal omnivore

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

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.