Parapithecines are an extinct subfamily of stem anthropoid primates previously known only
from the Jebel Qatrani Formation in Egypt. Here, we describe isolated teeth pertaining to …

A fifth anthropoid (= anthropoidean, simian or simiiform) genus and species from the late
Eocene Fayum Quarry L-41, Abuqatrania basiodontos gen. et sp. nov., further augments the …

A new species of Apidium is the most common primate currently known from a newly
discovered site near Zallah Oasis in the Sirt Basin of central Libya. Based on current …

Anthropoid primates of the subfamily Oligopithecinae are late Eocene in age, and have a
known distribution of Northeast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Body sizes of the three …

Recent fossil discoveries have demonstrated that Africa and Asia were epicentres for the
origin and/or early diversification of the major living primate lineages, including both …

Recent fossil discoveries of early human ancestors from paleoanthropological sites in Africa
and elsewhere have demonstrated how various phases of human evolutionary history were …

Three recently discovered faces of Aegyptopithecus zeuxis from the Oligocene Jebel Qatrani
Formation of Egypt provide new information about the shape and variation of the facial …

Recent excavations in northwestern Kenya have recovered a vertebrate fauna of late early
or early late Oligocene age. Among the mammal remains, a fragmentary lower jaw and an …

Oligopithecids are basal stem catarrhines that make their first definitive appearance in the
fossil record in the latest Eocene of Egypt. Previously, the group was assumed to have gone …

Paleontological work carried out over the last 3 decades has established that three major
primate groups were present in the Eocene of Africa—anthropoids, adapiforms, and …