Hispaniola monkey

Hispaniola monkey
Systematics
Partial order :	Monkey (anthropoidea)
without rank:	New World Monkey (Platyrrhini)
Family :	Sakia monkeys (Pitheciidae)
Tribe :	Antilles monkey (Xenotrichini)
Genre :	Antillothrix
Type :	Hispaniola monkey
Scientific name of the genus
	Antillothrix
	MacPhee , Horovitz , Arredondo & Jiménez , 1995
Scientific name of the species
	Antillothrix bernensis
	( Rímoli , 1977)

The Hispaniola monkey ( Antillothrix bernensis ) is an extinct primate species from the island of Hispaniola . She survived at least until 2000 BC.

Subfossil remains of this type have been found in the eastern Dominican Republic and southwest Haiti . The finds were estimated to be 10,000 to 4,000 years old. A fossil shin of the species found in an underwater cave in the Dominican province of La Altagracia has been determined to be 1.32 (± 0.11) million years old and extends the species' existence to over a million years.

At first the Hispaniola monkey was thought to be a close relative of the squirrel monkey or the capuchin monkey , later studies showed that the similarities were due to convergent development. Details in the structure of the teeth show that the closest relative of the Hispaniola monkey is the Kuba monkey , both species are now classified in the extinct group of the Antilles monkeys (Xenotrichini).

The exact time and causes of the extinction of these primates are unclear, but it is likely to be related to the colonization of Hispaniola by the Indians .

literature

Ronald M. Nowak: Walker's Mammals of the World. 6th edition. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 1999, ISBN 0-8018-5789-9 .
MacPhee, RDE; Horovitz, Ines .; Arredondo, Oscar .; Vasquez, Osvaldo Jimenez. A new genus for the extinct Hispaniolan monkey Saimiri bernensis Rímoli, 1977: with notes on its systematic position. American Museum novitates; no. 3134 Online

Individual evidence

^ Alfred L. Rosenberger, Robyn Pickering, Helen Green, Siobhán B. Cooke, Melissa Tallman, Andrea Morrow, Renato Rímoli. 1.32 ± 0.11 Ma age for underwater remains constrain antiquity and longevity of the Dominican primate Antillothrix bernensis . Journal of Human Evolution, 2015; DOI: 10.1016 / j.jhevol.2015.05.015

[1] Alfred L. Rosenberger, Robyn Pickering, Helen Green, Siobhán B. Cooke, Melissa Tallman, Andrea Morrow, Renato Rímoli. 1.32 ± 0.11 Ma age for underwater remains constrain antiquity and longevity of the Dominican primate Antillothrix bernensis . Journal of Human Evolution, 2015; DOI: 10.1016 / j.jhevol.2015.05.015