Krishnapithecus
| Krishnapithecus Temporal range: Miocene | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Family: | †Krishnapithecidae |
| Genus: | †Krishnapithecus Ginsburg and Mein, 1980 |
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Krishnapithecus is a genus of extinct primate related to Old World monkeys that lived around 9 million years ago during the Late Miocene. It has only one species, K. krishnaii. Discovered from Haritalyangar in Sivalik Hills, Himachal Pradesh, India, in 1979, it was originally identified from a single tooth (upper middle premolar) as member of Pliopithecus, a genus of ape-related primates described in 1849.[1] The unique features led to a creation of new genus Krishnapithecus in 1980.[2] Based on better specimens, the exact species identity was discovered in 2017.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ Chopra, S.R.K.; Kaul, S. (1979). "A new species of Pliopithecus from the Indian S̀ivaliks". Journal of Human Evolution. 8 (4): 475–477. doi:10.1016/0047-2484(79)90085-X.
- ↑ Ginsburg, Léonard; Mein, Pierre (1980). "Crouzelia rhodanica, nouvelle espèce de primate catarhinien et essai sur la position systématique des Pliapithecidae". Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 4ème série – section C – Sciences de la Terre, Paléontologie, Géologie, Minéralogie. 2 (2): 57–85 – via PASCAL.
- ↑ Sankhyan, Anek R.; Kelley, Jay; Harrison, Terry (2017). "A highly derived pliopithecoid from the Late Miocene of Haritalyangar, India". Journal of Human Evolution. 105: 1–12. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.01.010.
