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Extinct family of primates
Oligopithecidae is an extinct basal
Catarrhine
family from the late
Eocene of
Egypt (about 37 million years ago) as sister of the rest of the Catarrhines.
[1]
[2]
[3] Its members were probably
insectivorous , due to their simple molars and cusp arrangement.
[4]
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doi :
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ISSN
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S2CID
220087294 .
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