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Macaca libyca

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Macaca libyca
Temporal range: Miocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Macaca
Species:
M. libyca
Binomial name
Macaca libyca
Stromer, 1920

Macaca libyca is a prehistoric macaque from the Late Miocene of Wadi Natrun, Egypt.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ Yohannes Haile-Selassie; Giday WoldeGabriel (2009). Ardipithecus Kadabba: Late Miocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520254404. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  2. ^ BRENDA R. BENEFIT; MONTE MCCROSSIN; NOEL T. BOAZ & PARIS PAVLAKIS (2008). "New Fossil Cercopithecoids from the Late Miocene of As Sahabi, Libya" (PDF). Garyounis Scientific Bulletin (5): 265–282. Retrieved 18 March 2014.