Phenacopithecus
Phenacopithecus is an extinct genus of eosimiid primate that inhabited China during the Eocene epoch.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Family: | †Eosimiidae |
| Genus: | †Phenacopithecus Beard & Wang, 2004 |
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| Phenacopithecus xueshii Beard & Wang, 2004
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Phenacopithecus is an extinct genus of eosimiid primate that inhabited China during the Eocene epoch.
Distribution
[edit]Fossil remains of both P. xueshii and P. krishtalkai are known from the Heti Formation, located in the Yuanqu Basin.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Beard, Kenneth Christopher; Wang, Jingwen (April 2004). "The eosimiid primates (Anthropoidea) of the Heti Formation, Yuanqu Basin, Shanxi and Henan Provinces, People's Republic of China". Journal of Human Evolution. 46 (4): 401–432. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2004.01.002. Retrieved 14 February 2025 – via Elsevier Science Direct.