中猴

中猴Mesopithecus)是已滅絕舊世界猴[1]

中猴
化石时期:晚中新世至晚上新世
科学分类 编辑
界: 动物界 Animalia
门: 脊索动物门 Chordata
纲: 哺乳纲 Mammalia
目: 灵长目 Primates
科: 猴科 Cercopithecidae
属: 中猴屬 Mesopithecus
Wagner, 1839
种:
中猴 M. pentelici
二名法
Mesopithecus pentelici
Wagner, 1839

中猴長約40厘米,外表像獼猴,並可能是現今長尾葉猴屬的祖先。中猴適合行走及攀爬,有修長的身體,四肢長及壯健,手指靈活。

外部連結

  1. Nina G. Jablonski, Xueping Ji, Jay Kelley, Lawrence J. Flynn, Chenglong Deng and Denise F. Su. 2020. Mesopithecus pentelicus from Zhaotong, China, the easternmost representative of A Widespread Miocene Cercopithecoid Species. Journal of Human Evolution. 146, 102851. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102851
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