Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Parent taxon: Colobinae according to L. J. Hlusko 2007
See also Jablonski 2002 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Cercopithecoides, Colobini, Colobus, Dolichopithecus, Kuseracolobus, Mesopithecus, Nasalis, Piliocolobus, Presbytis, Procolobus, Pygathrix, Rhinopithecus, Simias, Trachypithecus
Subtaxa: Paracolobus chemeroni Paracolobus enkorikae Paracolobus mutiwa
Ecology: arboreal frugivore-folivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ethiopia (28 collections), Kenya (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (6), Kenya (2), Tanzania (12), Uganda (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (2), Uganda (2)
Total: 56 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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