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Phenacopithecus

Extinct genus of primates

Phenacopithecus is an extinct genus of eosimiid primate that inhabited China during the Eocene epoch.

01Distribution

Fossil remains of both P. xueshii and P. krishtalkai are known from the Heti Formation, located in the Yuanqu Basin.

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