Alophe

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]

Alophe Temporal range: Early Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Infraorder:	Simiiformes
Parvorder:	Catarrhini
Superfamily:	Cercopithecoidea
Genus:	†Alophe
Species:	†A. metios
Binomial name
†Alophe metios (Rasmussen et al. 2019)
Synonyms
Alophia Rasmussen et al. 2019

The monkey was originally named Alophia metios, but the genus Alophia was already taken by a moth, prompting the new name Alophe. ^[2]