Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Alternative combination: Rhinopithecus roxellana tingianus
Full reference: W.D. Matthew and W.T. Granger. 1923. New fossil mammals from the Pliocene of Sze-chuan, China. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 48(17):564-598
Belongs to Rhinopithecus according to W.D. Matthew and W.T. Granger 1923
See also Jablonski 2002
Sister taxa: Rhinopithecus (Rhinopithecus), Rhinopithecus avunculus, Rhinopithecus bieti, Rhinopithecus brelichi, Rhinopithecus lantianensis, Rhinopithecus roxellana, Rhinopithecus strykeri
Type specimen: AMNH 18466, a skull. Its type locality is Yen-ching-kao, which is in a Pleistocene/Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in China.
Ecology: arboreal frugivore-folivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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