Tropical South India, Southeast Asia, and presumably equatorial Africa and Madagascar would have served as refugia for primates during the Oligocene. Parts of Afro-Arabia also supported primates ...

During the Oligocene period, the Fayum Depression was a lush, tropical rainforest. Bastetodon would have preyed on primates such as Aegyptopithecus, an ancient relative of humans, as well as early ...