Kapi ramnagarensis

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Kapi ramnagarensis
Temporal range: Miocene, 13.8–12.5 Ma
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Hylobatidae
Genus: †Kapi
Gilbert et al., 2020
Species:
†K. ramnagarensis
Binomial name
†Kapi ramnagarensis
Gilbert et al., 2020

Kapi is an extinct genus of gibbons that lived about 13.8 to 12.5 million years ago during the Miocene.[1] The type species is K. ramnagarensis and it is known from a complete lower molar.[1]

The holotype molar was discovered in 2015 in the Lower Siwaliks of Ramnagar in Jammu and Kashmir. On 8 September 2020, scientists in northern India described the fossil and named the new species K. ramnagarensis.[1][2]

The generic name Kapi is from the Hindi term for a monkey. The specific name is after Ramnagar, where the type specimen was first found.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Gilbert, Christopher C.; et al. (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). doi:10.1098/rspb.2020.1655. PMC 7542791. PMID 32900315. S2CID 221538516.
  2. ^ 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.


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