indicates they were outcompeted by platyrrhines, which descend from a parallel anthropoid colonization of South America.

Classification issues

Fleagle and Kay (1987) comment on the difficulty in adequately classifying Parapithecidae - they note various attempts over many years to classify them as a 'sister' taxon of Old World monkeys, all other Old World anthropoids, platyrrhines or

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