Cercopithecoides Mollett 1947 (monkey)

Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae

Parent taxon: Colobinae according to L. Pallas et al. 2019

See also Jablonski 2002 and McKenna and Bell 1997

Sister taxa: Colobini, Colobus, Dolichopithecus, Kuseracolobus, Mesopithecus, Nasalis, Paracolobus, Piliocolobus, Presbytis, Procolobus, Pygathrix, Rhinopithecus, Simias, Trachypithecus

Subtaxa: Cercopithecoides alemayehui Cercopithecoides bruneti Cercopithecoides haasgati Cercopithecoides kerioensis Cercopithecoides kimeui Cercopithecoides meavae Cercopithecoides williamsi

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Ecology: arboreal frugivore-folivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Kenya (10 collections), South Africa (4), Tanzania (3)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (3), South Africa (4)

• Pliocene of Kenya (4), South Africa (1)

Total: 29 collections including 31 occurrences

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