Aegyptopithecus | fossil primate | Britannica (original) (raw)

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ape evolution

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  In ape
  genera include Catopithecus and Aegyptopithecus, possible successive ancestors of both the Old World monkeys and the apes. Later deposits have yielded such fossils as Pliopithecus, once thought to be related to gibbons but now known to be primitive and long separated from them. Closer to the modern apes are…
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  In primate: Oligocene
  Aegyptopithecus went on to give rise to living catarrhines (Old World monkeys and apes, whose ancestors did not separate until sometime between 29 million and 24 million years ago). The Fayum seems to depict the cradle of the catarrhines and possibly of the New World…
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