- Earliest Anthropoids— Eocene fossils from Asia:
- "Eosimiidae" (mostly from China):
- Eosimias, Phenacopithecus, Bahinia
- "Amphipithecidae" (mostly from Pondaung formation, Myanmar):
- Amphipithecus, Pondaungia, Ganlea, Myanmarpithecus;
Siamopithecus, Bugtipithecus
- General remarks on Cenozoic African geology & geography
- Precambrian core; oil; volcanics; rift valleys
- Fayum deposits of Egypt (Upper Eocene to lower Oligocene):
- Distinctively African fauna
- Adapids (mostly Eocene):
- Plesiopithecus, Anchomomys, Wadilemur, Aframonius, Afradapis
- Lorisoids(?): Saharagalago
- Tarsioid: Afrotarsius (Oligocene)
- Affinities unclear: Nosmips (large premolars)
- "Parapithecoidea" (mostly Eocene, but several persisted into Oligocene):
- Apidium
- Parapithecus
- Qatrania, Abuqatrania
- (less known): Biretia, Arsinoea, Serapia, Proteopithecus
- Possibly ancestral to Oreopithecus (Miocene, Europe)
- Possible monkey ancestor: Oligopithecus (with incipient C/P3 shear)
- Possible ape ancestors:
- Propliopithecus (lightly built, maybe gibbon-like)
- Moeripithecus
- Aegyptopithecus (largest and best known; most similar to Dryopithecus)
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