Alophe
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Parvorder: | Catarrhini |
| Superfamily: | Cercopithecoidea |
| Genus: | †Alophe |
| Species: | †A. metios
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| Binomial name | |
| †Alophe metios (Rasmussen et al. 2019)
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Alophia Rasmussen et al. 2019 | |
Alophe metios was an early cercopithecoid monkey that lived in Kenya about 22 million years ago. It is known from jaw fragments and teeth. Although it was more closely related to modern cercopithecids (Old World monkeys) than to apes, it had not evolved some features shared by crown cercopithecids and their nearest relatives, such as bilophodont molars.[1]
The monkey was originally named Alophia metios, but the genus Alophia was already taken by a moth, prompting the new name Alophe. [2]
References
- ^ Rasmussen, D. Tab; Friscia, Anthony R.; Gutierrez, Mercedes; Kappelman, John; Miller, Ellen R.; Muteti, Samuel; Reynoso, Dawn; Rossie, James B.; Spell, Terry L.; Tabor, Neil J; Gierlowski-Kordesch, Elizabeth; Jacobs, Bonnie F.; Kyongo, Benson; Macharwas, Matthew; Muchemi, Francis (March 26, 2019). "Primitive Old World monkey from the earliest Miocene of Kenya and the evolution of cercopithecoid bilophodonty". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 116 (12): 6051–6056. doi:10.1073/pnas.1815423116. PMC 6442627. PMID 30858323.
- ^ "Correction for Rasmussen et al., Primitive Old World monkey from the earliest Miocene of Kenya and the evolution of cercopithecoid bilophodonty". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 116 (24): 12109. 2019. doi:10.1073/pnas.1907208116. PMC 6575170. PMID 31160447.
