Cercocebus Geoffroy 1812 (monkey)
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Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Parent taxon: Papionina according to J. Xing et al. 2005
See also Gray 1825, Jablonski 2002, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Wilson and Reeder 2005
Sister taxa: Dinopithecus, Gorgopithecus, Lophocebus, Papio, Parapapio, Theropithecus
Subtaxa: Cercocebus agilis Cercocebus atys Cercocebus chrysogaster Cercocebus galeritus Cercocebus lunulatus Cercocebus sanjei Cercocebus torquatus
Ecology: arboreal frugivore-folivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Kenya (7 collections), Tanzania (1)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (2)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
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