Nanopithecus
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| Nanopithecus Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Family: | Cercopithecidae |
| Subfamily: | Cercopithecinae |
| Tribe: | Cercopithecini |
| Genus: | †Nanopithecus Plavcan et al., 2019 |
| Species: | †N. browni
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| Binomial name | |
| †Nanopithecus browni Plavcan et al., 2019
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Nanopithecus is an extinct genus of monkey that lived in Africa during the Zanclean stage of the Pliocene epoch.[1]
Evolution
[edit | edit source]The diminuitive size of Nanopithecus relative to the extant Miopithecus suggests either that dwarfing in the guenon lineage occurred at least twice independently or that it occurred very early on in their evolution.[2]
References
[edit | edit source]Lua error in Module:Taxonbar at line 165: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
