Masradapis
{{Short description|Extinct genus of primates}}
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| fossil_range = Priabonian
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| genus = Masradapis
| parent_authority = Seiffert et al. 2017
| species = tahai
| authority = Seiffert et al. 2017
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Masradapis is an extinct genus of caenopithecine primate from the Priabonian Birket Qarun Formation of the Fayum Depression, Egypt. The type and only species, Masradapis tahai, was named and described by Erik R. Seiffert et al., in 2017.{{cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315842489|title=New adapiform primate fossils from the late Eocene of Egypt|last1=Seiffert|first1=Erik R.|last2=Fleagle|first2=John|last3=Boyer|first3=Doug M.|last4=Sallam|first4=Hesham M.|journal=Historical Biology|issue=1–2|volume=30|pages=204–226|year=2017|doi=10.1080/08912963.2017.1306522|s2cid=89631627}} Bayesian tip-dating, when combined with Bayesian biogeographic analysis, suggests that a common ancestor of known caenopithecines dispersed to Afro-Arabia from Europe between 49.4 and 47.4 Ma, and that a trans-Tethyan back-dispersal explains Caenopithecus’ later presence in Europe.
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Category:Eocene mammals of Africa
Category:Fossil taxa described in 2017
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