pliopithecoid
English
editEtymology
editFrom scientific Latin Pliopithecoidea (superfamily name).
Noun
editpliopithecoid (plural pliopithecoids)
- A member of the extinct superfamily of catarrhine primates, Pliopithecoidea.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 110:
- Pliopithecoids persisted in Europe, Asia and Africa long after the first true apes and Old World monkeys appeared, and the fossil of one was the specimen Darwin was referred to.