After McKenna & Bell, 1997, Beard, 2002, Rasmussen, 2002 and Harrison, 2002
Alternative phylogeny of Primates after Gunnell, Ciochon, Gingerich & Holroyd, 2002
<== o Anthropoidea Mivart, 1864 [Simiiformes Haeckel, 1866] (“higher” primates, monkeys & apes; apinat) |?- †Myanmarpithecus yarshensis |?- †Djebelemur martinezi Hartenberger & Marandat, 1992 |--o †Pondaungidae Ciochon & Holroyd, 1994 [Amphipithecidae after Ducrocq et al., 2000] | |-- †Siamopithecus eocaenus Chaimanee et al., 1997 [Siamopithicini Gunnell, Ciochon, Gingerich & Holroyd, 2002] | `--o †Pondaungini Ciochon & Holroyd, 1994 | |-- †Amphipithecus mogaungensis Colbert, 1937 [incl. A. bahinensis] | `--o †Pondaungia Pilgrim, 1927 | |-- †P. cotteri Pilgrim, 1927 [incl. P. minuta Jaeger et al., 1998] | `-- †P. savagei Gunnell, Ciochon, Gingerich & Holroyd, 2002 `--+-- Platyrrhini É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1812 (New World monkeys; kapeanenäapinat) `--o Catarrhini É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1812 (Old World monkeys and apes; leveänenäapinat) |--o †Parapithecoidea Schlosser, 1911 | |-- †Eosimiidae Beard et al., 1994 [incl. Afrotarsiidae Ginsburg & Mein, 1987] | `--+?-o †Biretia de Bonis et al., 1988 | | |-- †B. piveteaui de Bonis et al., 1988 | | |-- †B. fayumensis Seiffert, Simons, Clyde, Rossie, Attia, Bown, Chatrath & Mathison, 2005 | | `-- †B. megalopsis Seiffert, Simons, Clyde, Rossie, Attia, Bown, Chatrath & Mathison, 2005 | `--o Parapithecidae sensu lato | |-- †Parapithecidae [Parapithecidae: Parapithecinae] | `-- †Oreopithecidae [Parapithecidae: Oreopithecinae] [also treated as a hominoid family] `--+--o †Propliopithecoidea Simons, 1965 | |-- †Oligopithecidae Kay & Williams, 1994 | `-- †Propliopithecidae Straus, 1961 |--o †Pliopithecoidea | |?- †Paidopithex rhenatus Pohlig, 1895 | |-- †Pliopithecidae | `-- †Crouzeliidae `--+?- †Langsonia |?- †Kalepithecus songhorensis (Andrews, 1978) Harrison, 1988 [Micropithecus songhorensis Andrews, 1978] |?- †Limnopithecus legetet Hopwood, 1933b [incl. L. evansi MacInnes, 1943] |-- †Kamoyapithecus hamiltoni (Madden, 1980) Leakey et al., 1995 `--+--o †Dendropithecoidea Harrison, 2002 | `-- †Dendropithecidae Harrison, 2002 `--+?-o †Proconsuloidea Leakey, 1963 sensu Harrison, 2002 | `-- †Proconsulidae Leakey, 1963 [also treated as a hominoid family] `--+-- Hominoidea Gray, 1825 (apes; great apes; ihmisapinat) `--o Cercopithecoidea Grey, 1821 (Old World monkeys; vanhanmaailmanhäntäapinat) `-- Cercopithecidae Grey, 1821 (Old World monkeys; vanhanmaailmanhäntäapinat)
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