Kapi (mammal)
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Kapi is an extinct primate genus that lived in northern India about 13.8 to 12.5 million years ago during the Miocene.[1][2] The only species, K. ramnagarensis, was described in 2020 and is known from a complete lower molar.[3] The fossil was discovered in 2015 from Ramnagar, a town in Jammu and Kashmir, for which the species name was created.[4] Though originally identified as member of the gibbons and popularised in the news as the oldest gibbon,[1] it was later reassessed as a pliopithecoid, a group of extinct Old World monkeys.[5]
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Superfamily: | †Pliopithecoidea |
Genus: | †Kapi Gilbert et al., 2020 |
Species: | †K. ramnagarensis |
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†Kapi ramnagarensis Gilbert et al., 2020 | |
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