Macaca_majori

<i>Macaca majori</i>

Macaca majori

Extinct species of monkey

Macaca majori, commonly known as the dwarf macaque, is a prehistoric macaque from the Early Pleistocene of Sardinia, Italy.[1] It descended from the Barbary macaque.[2] Its temporal range spans from about 2 million to 0.8 million years ago, during the Nesogoral faunal complex, alongside the goat-antelope Nesogoral, the pig Sus sondaari, the hyena Chasmaporthetes, the pika Prolagus, the shrew Asoriculus, the mole Talpa tyrrhenica, the mustelid Pannonictis, and the dormouse Tyrrhenoglis.[3]

Quick Facts Macaca majori Temporal range: Early Pleistocene, Scientific classification ...

The tooth microwear in Macaca majori indicates that M. majori likely fed on harder foods and occupied a different dietary niche compared to its mainland fossil relatives.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Fleagle, John G. (2013). Primate adaptation and evolution (3rd ed.). Academic Press. ISBN 9780123786333.
  2. [2]
    Elton, Sarah; O'Regan, Hannah J. (15 July 2014). "Macaques at the margins: the biogeography and extinction of Macaca sylvanus in Europe" (PDF). Quaternary Science Reviews. 96: 117–130. Bibcode:2014QSRv...96..117E. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.04.025.
  3. [3]
    Palombo, Maria Rita; Rozzi, Roberto (10 April 2014). "How correct is any chronological ordering of the Quaternary Sardinian mammalian assemblages?". Quaternary International. 328–329: 136–155. Bibcode:2014QuInt.328..136P. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.09.046.
  4. [4]
    Plastiras, C. A.; Thiery, G.; Guy, F.; Alba, D. M.; Nishimura, T.; Kostopoulos, D. S.; Merceron, G. (2023). "Investigating the dietary niches of fossil Plio-Pleistocene European macaques: The case of Macaca majori Azzaroli, 1946 from Sardinia". Journal of Human Evolution. 185. 103454. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103454. PMID 37977021. S2CID 265260157.
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