| Phenacopithecus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Family: | †Eosimiidae |
| Genus: | †Phenacopithecus Beard & Wang, 2004 |
| Type species | |
| Phenacopithecus xueshii Beard & Wang, 2004 | |
| Species | |
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Phenacopithecus is anextinct genus ofeosimiidprimate that inhabitedChina during theEoceneepoch.
Fossil remains of bothP. xueshii andP. krishtalkai areknown from the Heti Formation, located in the Yuanqu Basin.[1]