| Pliopithecoidea Temporal range:
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| Epipliopithecus skull | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Parvorder: | Catarrhini |
| Superfamily: | †Pliopithecoidea |
| Families, subfamilies & unplaced genera | |
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Dionysopithecidae | |
Pliopithecoidea is an extinct superfamily of catarrhine primates that inhabited Asia and Europe during the Miocene.[1][2] Although they were once a widespread and diverse group of primates, the pliopithecoids have no living descendants.
- ^ Begun, David (2002). The Pliopithecoidea (PDF). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-66315-6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-25. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
- ^ Harrison, Terry (2013). Catarrhine Origins. Wiley-Blackwell.
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