Dictionary of Human Evolution and Biology

Dictionary of Human Evolution and Biology

Oligopithecus Simons, 1962

Poorly known anthropoid genus from the late Eocene of North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula; two species recognized. Body mass ranges between 1 and 1.5 kg. Dental formula: 2.1.2.3/2.1.2.3; dental morphology is a mix of adapid and anthropoid traits and leads to confusion regarding the phylogenetic relationship of this genus.

Full-Text Search Entries

Apidium moustafai Simons, 1962 (Smaller and geologically older of the two species of fossil Apidium. Known principally from jaws ...)
Cantius (Pelycodus) Simons, 1962 (Adapoid prosimian from the early Eocene of North America and Europe, belonging to the notharctid ...)
Simons, Elwyn L. (US paleontologist at Yale, then at the Duke University Primate Center. In the 1960s, on the ...)
Fayum (Paleontological site found in 1906 southwest of Cairo, Egypt, in the Fayum depression, dated to ...)
Aegyptopithecus Simons, 1965 (Extinct genus of largest and best known of the haplorhines of the Oligocene epoch (c. 34-33 mya ...)