Pliopithecidae

The <a href="/facts/Family_(biology)/qTrn6E8E">family</a> Pliopithecidae is an <a href="/facts/Extinction/24p5NP2q">extinct</a> family of <a href="/facts/Fossil/by7NzIA1">fossil</a> <a href="/facts/Catarrhines/CmXTFKwb">catarrhines</a> and members of the <a href="/facts/Pliopithecoidea/wUsbRMDR">Pliopithecoidea</a> superfamily. 
Their anatomy combined primitive features such as a small braincase, a long snout, and a tail. At the same time, they possessed more advanced features such as <a href="/facts/Stereoscopic_vision/AL5Ydh0m">stereoscopic vision</a> and ape-like teeth and jaws, clearly distinguishing them from <a href="/facts/Monkey/ARjd5RRr">monkeys</a>.
Begun and Harrison divide the Pliopithecidae into subfamilies <a href="/facts/Pliopithecus/gHhBo5RP">Pliopithecinae</a> and <a href="/facts/Crouzeliinae/XL5rqyIG">Crouzeliinae</a>. Dionysopithecinae are sometimes placed here as a subfamily, but Begun & Harrison place them in their own family, the <a href="/facts/Dionysopithecidae/w9PxonnU">Dionysopithecidae</a>.

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Pliopithecidae