Parapithecus
| Parapithecus | |
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| Mandible of P. grangeri | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | †Parapithecidae |
| Genus: | †Parapithecus Schlosser, 1910 |
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Parapithecus is an extinct genus of primate that lived during the Late Eocene-Earliest Oligocene in what is now Egypt. Its members are considered to be basal anthropoids and the genus is closely related to Apidium. There are two known species. They lived about 40 to 33 million years ago.[1]
Bibliography
- ^ Beard, K. Christopher (2002). "Basal anthropoids". In Hartwig, Walter (ed.). The Primate Fossil Record. Cambridge University Press. pp. 133–149. ISBN 978-0-521-08141-2.
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