†Proteopithecus Simons 1989 (placental)
Mammalia - Primates - Proteopithecidae
PaleoDB taxon number: 97122
Full reference: E. L. Simons. 1989. Description of two genera and species of Late Eocene Anthropoidea from Egypt. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 86:9956-9960
Parent taxon: Proteopithecidae according to E. R. Seiffert et al. 2005
Sister taxon: Serapia
Subtaxa: Proteopithecus sylviae
Type: Proteopithecus sylviae
Ecology: scansorial insectivore