Nanopithecus
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Extinct genus of monkey
| Nanopithecus | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| 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 ]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 ]- ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Archived from the original on 1 May 2024. Retrieved 18 November 2025.
- ^ Plavcan, J. Michael; Ward, Carol V.; Kay, Richard F.; Manthi, Fredrick K. (October 2019). "A diminutive Pliocene guenon from Kanapoi, West Turkana, Kenya" . Journal of Human Evolution . 135: 102623. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2019年05月01日1 . Retrieved 18 November 2025 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
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