Parapapio Jones 1937 (monkey)

Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae

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

See also Jablonski 2002 and McKenna and Bell 1997

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

Subtaxa: Parapapio ado Parapapio angusticeps Parapapio antiquus Parapapio broomi Parapapio jonesi Parapapio lothagamensis Parapapio whitei

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Ecology: arboreal frugivore-folivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Kenya (2 collections), South Africa (2)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malawi (1), South Africa (6)

• Pliocene of Ethiopia (4), Kenya (8), Malawi (1), South Africa (1), Tanzania (16), Uganda (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (4)

• Miocene of Kenya (2)

Total: 49 collections including 57 occurrences

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