Name - Parapithecidae
Name Details
Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:89064 [metadata]
Reported Taxonomic Ranks
Family
Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies
Animalia (Kingdom) Chordata (Phylum) Vertebrata (Subphylum) Mammalia (Class) Primates (Order) |
References
Recent Publications
- Crania of Apidium: primitive anthropoidean (Primates, Parapithecidae) from the Egyptian Oligocene.
- Earliest record of a parapithecid anthropoid from the Jebel Qatrani Formation, northern Egypt.
- First record of a parapithecid primate from the Oligocene of Kenya.
- A new species of Apidium (Anthropoidea, Parapithecidae) from the Sirt Basin, central Libya: First record of Oligocene Primates from Libya.
- A new parapithecine (Primates: Anthropoidea) from the early Oligocene of Libya supports parallel evolution of large body size among parapithecids.
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External Links
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