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Mesopithecus pentelici Wagner 1839 (type) Mesopithecus ("middle monkey" for being between Hylobates and Semnopithecus in build) is an extinct genus of Old World monkey belonging to the subfamily Colobinae that lived in Europe and Asia during the Late Miocene and Pliocene epochs, around 8.2-2.6 million years ago.
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This is a list of fossil primates—extinct primates for which a fossil record exists. Primates are generally thought to have evolved from a small, unspecialized mammal, which probably fed on insects and fruits.
Three species are recognized within Mesopropithecus: [2]. M. pithecoides, described in 1905, was the first species to be formally named. [1] Its specific name, pithecoides, derives from the Greek word pithekos, meaning "monkey" or "ape", and the Greek suffix -oides, meaning "like" or "form", and reflects Standing's impression that the animal resembled monkeys in form.
Aegyptopithecus skull. Aegyptopithecus was discovered by Elwyn Simons in 1966 in the Gabal Qatrani Formation, located in the Faiyum Governorate of central Egypt. [3] [4] Aegyptopithecus zeuxis fossils were originally thought to be between 35.4 and 33.3 million years old, based on initial analysis of the formation in which they were found.
Protopithecus is an extinct genus of large New World monkey that lived during the Pleistocene. Fossils have been found in the Toca da Boa Vista cave of Brazil, as well as other locales in the country. [1]
Dinopithecus ("terrible ape") is an extinct genus of very large primates, closely related to baboons, that lived during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs in South Africa and Ethiopia.
The holotype of both the genus and type species, Micropithecus clarki, is an upper jaw, which is approximately 19 to 17 million years old, with largely preserved palate bones, and remains of bones of the skull.