Microcolobus tugenensis Benefit and Pickford 1986 (monkey)

Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae

Full reference: B.R. Benefit and M. Pickford. 1986. Miocene fossil cercopithecoids from Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 69:441-464

Belongs to Microcolobus according to B.R. Benefit and M. Pickford 1986

See also Jablonski 2002

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: KNM-BN 1740, a mandible

Ecology: arboreal frugivore-folivore

Distribution: found only at Ngeringerowa (Miocene of Kenya)

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