Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
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: Cercopithecoidea according to N.G. Jablonski and S. Frost 2010
See also Benefit and Pickford 1986, Carroll 1988, Cope 1889, Delson et al. 2005, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Frost 2001, Frost et al. 2020, Gilbert 2013, Gray 1821, Gregory 1910, Hlusko 2007, Jablonski 2002, Koufos et al. 1991, Kurten 1968, Nowak 1991, Pallas et al. 2019, Plavcan et al. 2019, Verma 1969, Wilson and Reeder 2005 and Wortman 1903
Sister taxa: Alophia, Nsungwepithecus, Victoriapithecidae
Subtaxa: Anomalopithecus Cercopithecinae Colobinae Colobinae Rungwecebus Semnopithecus Simia faunus
Ecology: arboreal frugivore-folivore
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)
• Villafranchian of Greece (1), Hungary (1), Slovakia (1)
• MN 16 of France (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), 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)
• Neogene of Slovakia (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Bulgaria (1), Chad (1), China (1), Ethiopia (1), Greece (4), Italy (2), Kenya (9), North Macedonia (1), Ukraine (1)
Total: 514 collections including 841 occurrences