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Extinct subfamily of mammals
The Nyanzapithecinae or Nyanzapithecines are a subfamily of extinct
Dendropithecidae as sister of
Simiolus .
[1]
[2] The group contains
Rangwapithecus ,
Turkanapithecus ,
Rukwapithecus ,
Oreopithecus , and
Nyanzapithecus . In the following tree the internal structure of Nyanzapithecinae of Nengo et al. is followed.
[3]
Nyanzapithecinae Harrison, 2002
Nyanzapithecus Harrison, 1986
Nyanzapithecus harrisoni Kunimatsu, 1997
Nyanzapithecus pickfordi Harrison, 1986
Nyanzapithecus vancouveringorum Andrews, 1974
Mabokopithecus von Koenigswald, 1969
Mabokopithecus clarki von Koenigswald, 1969
Rangwapithecus Andrews, 1974
Rangwapithecus gordoni Andrews, 1974
Turkanapithecus Leakey & Leakey, 1986
Turkanapithecus kalakolensis Leakey & Leakey, 1986
Nengo et al. suggest: "Nyanzapithecines were a long-lived and diverse group of Miocene hominoids that are probably close to the origin of crown hominoids."
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doi :
10.1073/pnas.1815423116 .
ISSN
0027-8424 .
PMC
6442627 .
PMID
30858323 .
^ Rossie, James B.; Hill, Andrew (2018). "A new species of Simiolus from the middle Miocene of the Tugen Hills, Kenya". Journal of Human Evolution . 125 : 50–58.
doi :
10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.09.002 .
PMID
30502897 .
^ Nengo, Isaiah; Tafforeau, Paul; Gilbert, Christopher C.; Fleagle, John G.; Miller, Ellen R.; Feibel, Craig; Fox, David L.; Feinberg, Josh; Pugh, Kelsey D. (2017).
"New infant cranium from the African Miocene sheds light on ape evolution" (PDF) . Nature . 548 (7666): 169–174.
doi :
10.1038/nature23456 .
ISSN
0028-0836 .
PMID
28796200 .
S2CID
4397839 .