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'''Parapithecus named primate is considered to be the ancestral form of the Gibbon.'''

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*''†[[ParapithecusP. fraasi]]'' <small>Schlosser, 1910</small>

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*''†[[ParapithecusP. grangeri]]'' <small>Simons, 1974</small>

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'''Parapithecus''' is an extinct genus of primatesprimate that lived during the [[Oligocene|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.

==Species==

*''†[[Parapithecus fraasi]]'' <small>Schlosser 1910</small>

*''†[[Parapithecus grangeri]]'' <small>Simons 1974</small>

==Bibliography==

* [[K. Christopher Beard]]: ''Basal anthropoids''. In {{Cite book |editor= Hartwig, Walter |title = The Primate Fossil Record |publisher = Cambridge University Press, pp. 133-149. |year = 2002. Reprinted 2004 |isbn = 978-0-521-08141-2 |url=http://books.google.com/?id=Ezm1OA_s6isC&printsec=frontcover&dq=hartwig+primate&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false |postscript= {{inconsistent citations}} |editor-link = Walter Hartwig}}

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