Superfamily Cercopithecoidea Gray 1821 (monkey)

Mammalia - Primates

Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310

Parent taxon: Catarrhini according to N. J. Stevens et al. 2013

See also Carroll 1988, Delson et al. 2005, Gilbert 2007, Jablonski 2002, Jablonski and Frost 2010, Koufos et al. 1991, Pallas et al. 2019, Plavcan et al. 2019, Poux and Douzery 2004, Wilson and Reeder 2005 and Zalmout et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Dendropithecoidea, Eucatarrhini, Hominoidea, Kalepithecus, Kamoyapithecus, Kansupithecus, Kogolepithecus, Krishnapithecus, Krishnapithecus krishnaii, Nyanzapithecinae, Pliobates, Pliopithecoidea, Propliopithecidae, Propliopithecoidea, Saadanioidea

Subtaxa: Alophia Cercopithecidae Nsungwepithecus Victoriapithecidae

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Ecology: arboreal omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), China (20), the Congo-Kinshasa (4), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Croatia (1), Djibouti (1), Ethiopia (117), France (5), Germany (4), Greece (4), Hungary (1), Indonesia (9), Israel (1), Italy (6), Japan (1), Kenya (67), Malaysia (1), Morocco (3), the Philippines (3), Romania (2), South Africa (38), Spain (7), Sudan (3), Swaziland (2), Taiwan (2), Tanzania (13), Thailand (3), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (2), Vietnam (2), Zambia (3)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Bulgaria (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Ethiopia (5), France (2), Italy (4), Kenya (12), Malawi (1), South Africa (6)

• Pliocene of Bulgaria (2), Egypt (2), Ethiopia (22), France (2), Greece (3), Hungary (2), Italy (1), Kenya (18), Malawi (2), Moldova (4), Morocco (1), Romania (4), Slovakia (1), South Africa (3), Spain (2), Tajikistan (2), Tanzania (22), Uganda (2), Ukraine (3)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (3), Kenya (4), South Africa (1), Uganda (2)

• Miocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1)

• Miocene of Afghanistan (1), Algeria (2), Bulgaria (2), Chad (1), China (1), Egypt (1), Ethiopia (1), Greece (10), Italy (2), Kenya (22), Libya (1), Macedonia (1), Uganda (2), Ukraine (1)

• Neogene of Slovakia (1)

• Oligocene of Tanzania (1)

Total: 520 collections including 857 occurrences

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