†Parapithecus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorrhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes (Anthropoidea) |
Family: | †Parapithecidae |
Genus: |
†Parapithecus Schlosser, 1910 |
Species | |
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Parapithecus is an extinct genus of primate that lived during the 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.