Subfamily Colobinae Blyth 1875 (monkey)

Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae

Alternative spelling: Colobidae

Parent taxon: Cercopithecidae according to M. Osterholz et al. 2008

See also Benefit and Pickford 1986, Delson et al. 2005, Fleagle 2013, Heintz et al. 1981, Hill 1952, Hlusko 2007, Jablonski 2002, Koufos et al. 1991, Pallas et al. 2019 and Xing et al. 2005

Sister taxa: Anomalopithecus, Cercopithecinae, Colobinae, Rungwecebus, Semnopithecus, Simia faunus

Subtaxa: Libypithecus Parapresbytis

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Ecology: arboreal frugivore-folivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Ethiopia (3 collections)

• Pliocene of Egypt (2), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (5), Slovakia (1), Tanzania (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (2), Kenya (2)

• Miocene of Chad (1), Kenya (1)

Total: 20 collections including 25 occurrences

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