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Colobinae
Taxonomy
Colobidae was named by Blyth (1875). It is extant. It was considered monophyletic by Xing et al. (2005).
It was reranked as the subfamily Colobinae by Heintz et al. (1981), Benefit and Pickford (1986), Koufos et al. (1991), Xing et al. (2005), Delson et al. (2005), Hlusko (2007), Osterholz et al. (2008), Fleagle (2013) and Pallas et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Primates by Hill (1952); to Cercopithecoidea by Jablonski (2002); and to Cercopithecidae by Heintz et al. (1981), Benefit and Pickford (1986), Koufos et al. (1991), Xing et al. (2005), Delson et al. (2005), Hlusko (2007), Osterholz et al. (2008), Fleagle (2013) and Pallas et al. (2019).
It was reranked as the subfamily Colobinae by Heintz et al. (1981), Benefit and Pickford (1986), Koufos et al. (1991), Xing et al. (2005), Delson et al. (2005), Hlusko (2007), Osterholz et al. (2008), Fleagle (2013) and Pallas et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Primates by Hill (1952); to Cercopithecoidea by Jablonski (2002); and to Cercopithecidae by Heintz et al. (1981), Benefit and Pickford (1986), Koufos et al. (1991), Xing et al. (2005), Delson et al. (2005), Hlusko (2007), Osterholz et al. (2008), Fleagle (2013) and Pallas et al. (2019).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1875 | Colobidae Blyth |
1952 | Colobidae Hill p. 128 |
1981 | Colobinae Heintz et al. p. 275 |
1986 | Colobinae Benefit and Pickford |
1991 | Colobinae Koufos et al. p. 285 |
2002 | Colobidae Jablonski |
2005 | Colobinae Delson et al. p. 161 |
2005 | Colobinae Xing et al. |
2007 | Colobinae Hlusko |
2008 | Colobinae Osterholz et al. p. 2 |
2013 | Colobinae Fleagle |
2019 | Colobinae Pallas et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
References: Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988 |
Collections (20 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Tortonian - Messinian | Kenya | Colobinae indet. A, Colobinae indet. B, Colobinae indet. small (22241) | |
Tortonian - Zanclean | Ethiopia | Colobinae indet. (22139) Libypithecus sp. (22179) | |
Messinian | Chad | Colobinae indet. (59839) | |
Messinian - Zanclean | Kenya | Colobinae indet. (22242) | |
Messinian - Piacenzian | Kenya | C. sp. (22237) | |
Zanclean | Ethiopia | Colobinae indet. (22160) | |
Zanclean | Kenya | Colobinae indet. (22234) | |
Pliocene | Kenya | Colobinae indet. lg., Colobinae indet. sm. (22321) | |
Zanclean - Piacenzian | Kenya | Colobinae indet. (22235 22239) | |
Zanclean - Pliocene | Kenya | Colobinae indet. (22267) | |
Late/Upper Pliocene | Egypt | Libypithecus markgrafi (22592) | |
Late/Upper Pliocene | Egypt (Al Buhayrah) | Libypithecus markgrafi (42119) | |
Piacenzian | Tanzania | Colobinae indet. (21818 21832) | |
Villanyian | Slovakia | Colobinae indet. (41027) | |
Gelasian | Ethiopia | Colobinae indet. (21632 21657) | |
Gelasian - Calabrian | Ethiopia (Ethiopian Rift) | Colobinae indet. (22494) |