Nanopithecus

Nanopithecus is an extinct genus of monkey that lived in Africa during the Zanclean stage of the Pliocene epoch.^[1]

Nanopithecus Temporal range: Early Pliocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Primates
Suborder:	Haplorhini
Family:	Cercopithecidae
Subfamily:	Cercopithecinae
Tribe:	Cercopithecini
Genus:	†Nanopithecus Plavcan et al., 2019
Species:	†N. browni
Binomial name
†Nanopithecus browni Plavcan et al., 2019

Evolution

The diminuitive size of Nanopithecus relative to the extant Miopithecus suggests either that dwarfing in the guenon lineage occurred at least twice independently or that it occurred very early on in their evolution.^[2]