Dionysopithecidae
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Parvorder: | Catarrhini |
| Superfamily: | †Pliopithecoidea |
| Family: | †Dionysopithecidae |
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Dionysopithecidae is an extinct family of fossil catarrhines and the earliest known and most primitive members of the Pliopithecoidea superfamily, with fossils in Sihong in China dating to 18 - 17 million years ago for species Dionysopithecus shuangouensis and Platodontopithecus jianghuaiensis.[1]
A single lower molar found in Ban San Klang in Thailand is similar to those found in Sihong but sufficiently different to be considered a different species, Dionysopithecus orientalis.[1]
They are sometimes treated as a subfamily of Pliopithecidae as 'Dionysopithecinae'[2].
References
- ^ a b Harrison, Terry (2012). "Chapter 20 Catarrhine Origins". In Begun, David (ed.). A Companion To Paleoanthropology. Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-118-33237-5. Archived from the original on 2013.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|archive-date=(help) - ^ Harrison, T; Gu, Y (1999). Taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of early Miocene catarrhines from Sihong, China.
- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Prehistoric World page 434.
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