Name - Parapithecidae

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:89064 [metadata]

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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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