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The Pleistocene Macaque from the Tokai District, Japan

1972; Anthropological Society of Nippon; Volume: 80; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1537/ase1911.80.1

1884-765X

Mitsuo Iwamoto, Fuyuji Takai,

Evolution and Paleontology Studies

Morphological examinations were made on macaque fossils from two sites, Gansuiji, Hamakita, in Shizuoka Prefecture, and Usikawa, Toyohashi, in Aichi Prefecture. The fossil specimens are thought to belong to the late Pleistocene. Fragmental bones of the upper and lower jaws have characteristics not much different from those of the living Japanese monkey (Macaca fuscata), except that they seem to be rather stout. Most of the fossil teeth, in their sizes, fall into the individual variation which the living Japanese monkey has, but some of them apparently have large sizes, especially as concerns breadth. Thus, the Pleistocen macaque concerned should, for the present, be treated as belonging not to the same species as the Japanese Monkey, but to a similar species, i.e. Macaca cf. fuscata.