Oligopithecus

Oligopithecus
Temporal range: Early Oligocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Parvorder: Catarrhini
Family: Oligopithecidae
Genus: Oligopithecus
Simons, 1962[1]
Type species
Oligopithecus savagei
Simons, 1962
Species
  • Oligopithecus rogeri Gheerbrant et al. 1995[2]
  • Oligopithecus savagei Simons, 1962[1]

Oligopithecus is a fossil primate that lived in Africa during the Early Oligocene. It is represented by one species, Oligopithecus savagei, known from one jaw bone found in Egypt.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ a b E. L. Simons. 1962. Two new primate species from the African Oligocene. Postilla 64:1-12
  2. ^ E. Gheerbrant, H. Thomas, S. Sen and Z. Al-Sulaimani. 1995. Nouveau primate Oligopithecinae (Simiiformes) de l'Oligocène inférieur de Taqah, Sultanat d'Oman = New Oligopithecinae Primate (Simiiformes) from the early Oligocene of Taqah, Sultanate of Oman. Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences de Paris, Série 2 321:425-432
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  5. ^ Stevens, Nancy J.; Seiffert, Erik R.; O'Connor, Patrick M.; Roberts, Eric M.; Schmitz, Mark D.; Krause, Cornelia; Gorscak, Eric; Ngasala, Sifa; Hieronymus, Tobin L. (2013). "Palaeontological evidence for an Oligocene divergence between Old World monkeys and apes" (PDF). Nature. 497 (7451): 611–614. Bibcode:2013Natur.497..611S. doi:10.1038/nature12161. PMID 23676680. S2CID 4395931.