Nyanzapithecinae

{{Short description|Extinct subfamily of mammals}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|27|7}}

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| taxon = Nyanzapithecinae

| authority = Harrison, 1999/2002

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = †Rangwapithecus

†Turkanapithecus

†Rukwapithecus

†Oreopithecus?

†Nyanzapithecus

}}

The Nyanzapithecinae or Nyanzapithecines are a subfamily of extinct Dendropithecidae as sister of Simiolus.{{Cite journal|last1=Rasmussen|first1=D. Tab|last2=Friscia|first2=Anthony R.|last3=Gutierrez|first3=Mercedes|last4=Kappelman|first4=John|last5=Miller|first5=Ellen R.|last6=Muteti|first6=Samuel|last7=Reynoso|first7=Dawn|last8=Rossie|first8=James B.|last9=Spell|first9=Terry L.|date=2019-03-26|title=Primitive Old World monkey from the earliest Miocene of Kenya and the evolution of cercopithecoid bilophodonty|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|language=en|volume=116|issue=13|pages=6051–6056|doi=10.1073/pnas.1815423116|issn=0027-8424|pmc=6442627|pmid=30858323|doi-access=free}}{{cite journal|last1=Rossie|first1=James B.|last2=Hill|first2=Andrew|year=2018|title=A new species of Simiolus from the middle Miocene of the Tugen Hills, Kenya|journal=Journal of Human Evolution|volume=125|pages=50–58|doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.09.002|pmid=30502897}} The group contains Rangwapithecus, Turkanapithecus, Rukwapithecus, Oreopithecus, and Nyanzapithecus. In the following tree the internal structure of Nyanzapithecinae of Nengo et al. is followed.{{Cite journal|last1=Nengo|first1=Isaiah|last2=Tafforeau|first2=Paul|last3=Gilbert|first3=Christopher C.|last4=Fleagle|first4=John G.|last5=Miller|first5=Ellen R.|last6=Feibel|first6=Craig|last7=Fox|first7=David L.|last8=Feinberg|first8=Josh|last9=Pugh|first9=Kelsey D.|date=2017|title=New infant cranium from the African Miocene sheds light on ape evolution|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=548|issue=7666|pages=169–174|doi=10.1038/nature23456|pmid=28796200|s2cid=4397839|issn=0028-0836|url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1570349/1/Spoor_Nengo-et-al_text.pdf}}{{Clade|{{clade

|1=Dendropithecus

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|1=Simiolus

|label2=Nyanzapithecinae

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|1=Rangwapithecus

|2={{clade

|1=Turkanapithecus

|2={{clade

|1={{clade

|1=Oreopithecus

|2=Rukwapithecus

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|2=Nyanzapithecus

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}}|label1=Dendropithecidae|style1=line-height:80%;font-size:80%}}

Nyanzapithecinae Harrison, 2002

• Nyanzapithecus Harrison, 1986
• Nyanzapithecus harrisoni Kunimatsu, 1997
• Nyanzapithecus pickfordi Harrison, 1986
• Nyanzapithecus vancouveringorum Andrews, 1974
• Mabokopithecus von Koenigswald, 1969
• Mabokopithecus clarki von Koenigswald, 1969
• Rangwapithecus Andrews, 1974
• Rangwapithecus gordoni Andrews, 1974
• Turkanapithecus Leakey & Leakey, 1986
• Turkanapithecus kalakolensis Leakey & Leakey, 1986

Nengo et al. suggest: "Nyanzapithecines were a long-lived and diverse group of Miocene hominoids that are probably close to the origin of crown hominoids."