Kapi (mammal)

Kapi
Temporal range: Miocene, 13.8–12.5 Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this 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
Binomial name
†Kapi ramnagarensis
Gilbert et al., 2020

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]

  1. ^ a b Bower, Bruce (8 September 2020). "A stray molar is the oldest known fossil from an ancient gibbon - Ancestors of these small-bodied apes were in India roughly 13 million years ago, a study suggests". Science News. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  2. ^ Ji, Xueping; Harrison, Terry; Zhang, Yingqi; Wu, Yun; Zhang, Chunxia; Hu, Jinming; Wu, Dongdong; Hou, Yemao; Li, Song; Wang, Guofu; Wang, Zhenzhen (2022). "The earliest hylobatid from the Late Miocene of China". Journal of Human Evolution. 171: 103251. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103251. ISSN 0047-2484. PMID 36113226.
  3. ^ Gilbert, Christopher C.; Ortiz, Alejandra; Pugh, Kelsey D.; Campisano, Christopher J.; Patel, Biren A.; Singh, Ningthoujam Premjit; Fleagle, John G.; Patnaik, Rajeev (9 September 2020). "New Middle Miocene Ape (Primates: Hylobatidae) from Ramnagar, India fills major gaps in the hominoid fossil record". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 287 (1934): 2020.1655. doi:10.1098/rspb.2020.1655. PMC 7542791. PMID 32900315. S2CID 221538516.
  4. ^ "13-Million-Year-Old Gibbon Ancestor Discovered in India | Sci.News". SciNews. 2020-09-09. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
  5. ^ de Vries, Dorien; Beck, Robin (2023). "Twenty-five well-justified fossil calibrations for primate divergences". Palaeontologia Electronica: 26.1.a8. doi:10.26879/1249.