Theropithecus oswaldi
| Theropithecus oswaldi Temporal range: Early to Middle Pleistocene 1 Million years ago | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Cercopithecidae |
| Genus: | Theropithecus |
| Species: | †T. oswaldi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Theropithecus oswaldi (Andrews, 1916) | |
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Theropithecus oswaldi is an extinct species of Theropithecus from the early to middle Pleistocene of Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa, Spain, Morocco, and Algeria. The species went extinct in South Africa around 1 million years ago. Having existed alongside hominins like Homo erectus, it is likely that conflict with early humans played a role in their extinction as a site has been found with many juveniles butchered.