†infraorder Parapithecoidea Schlosser 1911 (monkey)

Mammalia - Primates

Parent taxon: Anthropoidea according to R. F. Kay et al. 2004

See also Carroll 1988, Seiffert et al. 2005 and Simons 2001

Sister taxa: Afrotarsiidae, Amamria, Amphipithecidae, Arctopithecini, Aseanpithecus, Catarrhini, Eosimiidae, Neopithecini, Oligopithecidae, Paleopithecini, Perupithecus, Platyrrhini, Proteopithecidae, Aotidae, Protoanthropoidea, Notnamaia

Subtaxa: Arsinoea Parapithecidae

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Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Egypt (9 collections), Kenya (1), Libya (1), Oman (1), Peru (1)

• Eocene of Algeria (1), Egypt (1), Libya (1)

Total: 16 collections including 22 occurrences

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