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{{Taxobox

| name = Pliopithecoidea

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|EarlyMiddle Miocene|PlioceneLate Miocene}}

| image =Epipliopithecus vindobonensis.jpg

| image_caption = ''[[Epipliopithecus]]'' skull

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'''Pliopithecoidea''' is an extinct superfamily of [[catarrhine]] [[primate]]s that inhabited Asia and Europe during the [[Miocene]] and Pliocene.<ref name="Begun2002">{{cite book|last1=Begun|first1=David|title=The Pliopithecoidea|date=2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0 521 66315 6|url=http://anthropology.utoronto.ca/Faculty/Begun/Begunplio.pdf}}</ref><ref name="Harrison2013">{{cite book|last1=Harrison|first1=Terry|title=Catarrhine Origins|date=2013|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|url=https://www.academia.edu/7124992/2013_Harrison_-_Catarrhine_Origins}}</ref> Although they were once a widespread and diverse group of primates, the Pliopithecoids have no living descendants.

== History of discovery ==