''Macaca anderssoni'' is a prehistoric species of

macaque The macaques () constitute a genus (''Macaca'') of gregarious Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae. The 23 species of macaques inhabit ranges throughout Asia, North Africa, and Europe (in Gibraltar). Macaques are principally f ...

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Pleistocene The Pleistocene ( ; referred to colloquially as the ''ice age, Ice Age'') is the geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fin ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. It weighed between and . This species has a unique nasal cavity morphology that is laterally expanded anteriorly and constricted posteriorly. This morphology is not found in other

species, except for some of the larger members of the Sinica group.Ito, T., Nishimura, T. D., Ebbestad, J. O., & Takai, M. (2014). Computed tomography examination of the face of macaca anderssoni (early pleistocene, Henan, Northern China): Implications for the biogeographic history of Asian macaques. Journal of Human Evolution, 72, 64–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.04.001

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M Prehistoric monkeys Pleistocene mammals of Asia Pleistocene primates Cenozoic Japan Extinct animals of Japan Fossil taxa described in 1924 Fossils of China Fossils of Japan {{oldworld-monkey-stub