†Laccopithecus Wu and Pan 1984 (monkey)
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Mammalia - Primates - Pliopithecidae
Full reference: R. Wu and Y. Pan. 1984. A late Miocene Gibbon-like Primate from Lufeng, Yunnan Province. Acta Anthropologica Sinica (Renleixue xuebao) 3(3):185-194
Parent taxon: Crouzeliini according to T. Harrison and Y. Gu 1999
See also Harrison et al. 1991 and Wu and Pan 1984
Sister taxa: Anapithecini, Anapithecus, Egarapithecus, Plesiopliopithecus
Subtaxa: Laccopithecus robustus
Ecology: arboreal omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of China (7 collections)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
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