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: Chiromyiformes according to G. F. Gunnell et al. 2018

See also Seiffert et al. 2005 and Simons 1992

Sister taxa: Daubentoniidae, Propotto

Subtaxa: Plesiopithecus teras

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Type: Plesiopithecus teras

Ecology: arboreal omnivore

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

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