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Oligopithecidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Suborder
  
Haplorrhini

Superfamily
  
†Propliopithecoidea

Rank
  
Family

Class
  
Mammalia

Parvorder
  
Catarrhini

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Primate

Similar
  
Primate, Propliopithecidae, Eosimias, Apidium, Propliopithecus

Oligopithecidae is an extinct primate family from the late Eocene of Egypt (about 37 million years ago). Its members were probably insectivorous due to their simple molars and cusp arrangement. This family split off the lineage of Old World monkeys and apes sometime after the New World monkeys also split off.

References

Oligopithecidae Wikipedia