Noropithecus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | †Victoriapithecidae |
Genus: | †Noropithecus Miller et al. 2009 |
Type species | |
Noropithecus bulukensis Miller et al. 2009
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Noropithecus is an extinct Old World monkey uncovered from the Early Miocene formations of Buluk, Kenya. It is known from a fragment of a right mandible. It is believed to have been arboreal and omnivorous.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Miller, E.R.; B.R. Benefit; M.L. McCrossin; J.M. Plavcan; M.G. Leakey; A.N. El-Barkooky; M.A. Hamdan; M.K. Abdel Gawad; S.M. Hassan & E.L. Simons (2009). "Systematics of early and middle Miocene Old World monkeys". J Hum Evol. 57 (3): 195–211. Bibcode:2009JHumE..57..195M. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.06.006. PMID 19640562.