Parapithecus

Parapithecus
Temporal range: Eocene-Oligocene,
Mandible of P. grangeri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: †Parapithecidae
Genus: †Parapithecus
Schlosser, 1910
Species
  • P. fraasi Schlosser, 1910

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.

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