Pliopithecoidea Temporal range:
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Epipliopithecus skull | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Parvorder: | Catarrhini |
Superfamily: | †Pliopithecoidea |
Families, subfamilies & unplaced genera | |
Dionysopithecidae |
Pliopithecoidea is an extinct superfamily of catarrhine primates that inhabited Asia and Europe during the Miocene.[1][2] Although they were once a widespread and diverse group of primates, the pliopithecoids have no living descendants.