- Art Gallery -

Nyanzapithecus

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Mammalia
Subclassis: Theria
Infraclassis: Placentalia
Ordo: Primates
Subordo: Haplorrhini
Infraordo: Simiiformes
Parvordo: Catarrhini
Superfamilia: †Proconsuloidea
Familia: Proconsulidae
Subfamilia: Nyanzapithecinae
Genus: Nyanzapithecus
Species: N. harrisoni - N. pickfordi - N. vancouveringorum

Name

†Nyanzapithecus Harrison, 1986

Type species

†Dryopithecus vancouveringi Andrews, 1974 [=†Nyanzapithecus vancouveringorum (Andrews, 1974)], by original designation


References

Andrews, P. 1974: New species of Dryopithecus from Kenya. Nature (London), 249: 188-190.
Harrison, T. 1986: New fossil anthropoids from the Middle Miocene of east Africa and their bearing on the origin of the Oreopithecidae. American journal of physical anthropology, 71: 265-284. PDF
Kunimatsu, Y. 1992: A revision of the hypodigm of Nyanzapithecus vancouveringi. African study monographs, 14(4): 231-235. PDF PDF
Kunimatsu, Y. 1997: New species of Nyanzapithecus from Nachola, northern Kenya. Anthropological science, 105(2): 117-141.

Biology Encyclopedia

Mammals Images

Source: Wikispecies: All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License