Theropithecus Geoffroy 1843 (gelada)

Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae

Synonyms: Gelada Gray 1843, Simopithecus Andrews 1916

Parent taxon: Papionina according to N.G. Jablonski and S. Frost 2010

See also Allen 1925, Geraads et al. 2004, Jablonski 2002, McKenna and Bell 1997, Wilson and Reeder 2005 and Xing et al. 2005

Sister taxa: Cercocebus, Dinopithecus, Gorgopithecus, Lophocebus, Papio, Parapapio

Subtaxa: Theropithecus (Omopithecus) Theropithecus darti Theropithecus gelada Theropithecus oswaldi

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Ecology: arboreal frugivore-folivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), Djibouti (1), Ethiopia (79), Italy (1), Kenya (43), Morocco (3), South Africa (4), Spain (1), Tanzania (4)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Ethiopia (2), Kenya (12), Malawi (1)

• Pliocene of Ethiopia (10), Kenya (8), Morocco (1), South Africa (2)

Total: 174 collections including 186 occurrences

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