''Masradapis'' is an extinct genus of
caenopithecine primate
Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys and apes, the latter including huma ...
from the
Priabonian
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Birket Qarun Formation
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Birket Church ...
of the
Fayum Depression
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,
Egypt
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. The type and only species, ''Masradapis tahai'', was named and described by Erik R. Seiffert ''et al.'', in 2017.
, when combined with
Bayesian biogeographic analysis, suggests that a common ancestor of known caenopithecines dispersed to Afro-Arabia from Europe between 49.4 and 47.4 Ma, and that a trans-Tethyan back-dispersal explains ''Caenopithecus''’ later presence in Europe.
References
Prehistoric strepsirrhines
Eocene mammals of Africa
Fossils of Egypt
Fossil taxa described in 2017
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