Pliopithecoidea

Pliopithecoidea
Temporal range:
Epipliopithecus skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Parvorder: Catarrhini
Superfamily: †Pliopithecoidea
Families, subfamilies & unplaced genera

Dionysopithecidae
Pliopithecidae
Crouzeliinae
Paidopithex
Krishnapithecus
Kapi

Pliopithecoidea is an extinct superfamily of catarrhine primates that inhabited Asia and Europe during the Miocene. Although they were once a widespread and diverse group of primates, the pliopithecoids have no living descendants.