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 (23), the Congo-Kinshasa (4), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Croatia (1), Djibouti (1), Eswatini (2), Ethiopia (117), France (5), Germany (4), Greece (4), Hungary (1), India (1), Indonesia (9), Israel (1), Italy (6), Japan (1), Kenya (67), Laos (1), Malaysia (3), Morocco (3), the Philippines (3), Romania (2), South Africa (38), Spain (7), Sudan (3), Taiwan (2), Tanzania (13), Thailand (5), Türkiye (1), the United Kingdom (2), Vietnam (2), Zambia (3)

• MN 16 of France (1)

• Villafranchian of Greece (1), Hungary (1), Slovakia (1)

• 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 (1), Greece (4), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Kenya (18), Libya (1), Malawi (2), Moldova (4), Morocco (1), Romania (4), Serbia (1), South Africa (3), Spain (2), Tajikistan (2), Tanzania (22), Uganda (2), Ukraine (3)

• Turolian of Afghanistan (1), Bulgaria (1), Greece (6)

• Miocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1)

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

• Miocene of Algeria (2), Bulgaria (1), Chad (1), China (1), Egypt (1), Ethiopia (1), Greece (4), Italy (2), Kenya (22), Libya (4), North Macedonia (1), Uganda (2), Ukraine (1)

• Neogene of Slovakia (1)

• Oligocene of Tanzania (1)

Total: 536 collections including 878 occurrences

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