Libypithecus

{{short description|Extinct single-species genus of primates}}

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| taxon = Libypithecus

| authority = Stromer, 1913

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| type_species = {{extinct}}Libypithecus markgrafi

| type_species_authority = Stromer, 1913

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Libypithecus markgrafi is an extinct species of primate that lived in the Late Miocene.{{cite journal |author1=Todd C. Rae |author2=Olav Röhrer-Ertl |author3=Claus-Peter Wallner |author4=Thomas Koppe |year=2007 |title=Paranasal pneumatization of two Late Miocene colobines: Mesopithecus and Libypithecus (Cercopithecidae: Primates) |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=768–771 |doi=10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[768:PPOTLM]2.0.CO;2|s2cid=85777762 }} It is the only species described in the genus Libypithecus.

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Category:Colobinae

Category:Prehistoric monkeys

Category:Miocene primates of Africa

Category:Fossil taxa described in 1913

Category:Monotypic prehistoric primate genera

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