The genus Apidium (from Latin, a diminutive of the Egyptian bull god, Apis, as the first fossils were thought to be from a type of a cow) is that of at least three extinct primates living from the late Eocene to the early Oligocene, roughly 36 to 32 million years ago. Apidium fossils are common in the Fayoum deposits of Egypt. Fossils of the earli...
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(from the article `primate`) ...has come the first evidence of the emerging Catarrhini. A number of different genera have been described from Fayum, including Catopithecus, ...
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