The genus Apidium (from Latin, a diminutive of the Egyptian bull god, Apis, as the first fossils were thought to be from a type of a cow) is that of at least three extinct primates living in the early Oligocene, from 30 to 28 million years ago. Apidium fossils …

亞闢猴（Apidium），又名牛骨猴，是生存於3020-2950萬年前漸新世的靈長目。 亞闢猴的 化石 在 埃及 的 法尤姆 很普遍，其下最早的 A. moustafai 的化石較罕有，而較遲的 A. phiomense 則較多。

2016年1月1日 · A new species of Apidium is the most common primate currently known from a newly discovered site near Zallah Oasis in the Sirt Basin of central Libya.

亚辟猴（Apidium），又名牛骨猴，是生存于3600-3200万年前渐新世早期的灵长目。 亚辟猴的化石在埃及的法尤姆很普遍，其下最早的A. moustafai的化石较罕有，而较迟的A. phiomense则较多。

A new species of Apidium is the most common primate currently known from a newly discovered site near Zallah Oasis in the Sirt Basin of central Libya. Based on current knowledge of the associated fauna, this new species of Apidium is early Oligocene in age, being roughly contemporaneous with faunas …

A new partial skull confirms reference of an earlier described frontal bone to the genus and species Apidium phiomense. Together these two finds demonstrate that several anthropoidean cranial characteristics had been developed in the African parapithecids by Oligocene times, 34 million years ago.

亚辟猴 是一种原始的狭鼻猴类，产自埃及法雍的渐新统，有两种，即Apidium moustafai和A. phiomense。 材料包括许多肢骨、牙齿、上、下颌骨及一些头骨破片。 后一种有象狨猴一样短的脸和小的犬齿，四肢适应于跳跃，是高度适应树栖的 灵长类。 它的下颌较深，联合部愈合，齿式是 2·1·3·3。 从上牙的形态看，它可能与山猿是平行发展的。 中猴 （Mesopithecus）最早发现于希腊雅典附近的上新世早期地层，有两个种即M. Pentelici和M. monmpessu-lanus，时代为晚中新 …

>Apidium, Qatrania, Propliopithecus, Oligopithecus, Parapithecus, and Aegyptopithecus. The first two of these, together with some other primates of uncertain affinities, are from the Sagha Formation, which, technically, is latest Eocene in age, but the deposits are continuous.

副猿科中以渐新世早期的 亚辟猴 Apidium为代表，是适应树栖生活的小型 灵长类 。副猿科和阔鼻下目一样有三个前臼齿而不同于狭鼻下目的两个前臼齿。副猿的诸多特征介于阔鼻猴及狭鼻猴之间.

Apidium phiomense is the most common primate from the early Oligocene deposits of Fayum, Egypt. It is known from hundreds of dental remains and dozens of skeletal remains, including numerous representatives of the long bones of the forelimb and hindlimb.