Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Parent taxon: Cercopithecidae according to S. R. Frost et al. 2020
See also Jablonski 2002 and Wilson and Reeder 2005
Sister taxa: Anomalopithecus, Cercopithecinae, Colobinae, Rungwecebus, Semnopithecus, Simia faunus
Subtaxa: Cercopithecoides Colobini Colobus Dolichopithecus Kuseracolobus Mesopithecus Nasalis Paracolobus Piliocolobus Presbytis Procolobus Pygathrix Rhinopithecus Simias Trachypithecus
Ecology: arboreal frugivore-folivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of China (10 collections), Ethiopia (53), France (1), Indonesia (6), Kenya (19), Malaysia (1), South Africa (4), Taiwan (1), Tanzania (3), Thailand (2)
• MN 16 of France (1)
• Villafranchian of Hungary (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1), France (1), Kenya (4), South Africa (4)
• Pliocene of Bulgaria (2), Ethiopia (11), Greece (3), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Kenya (7), Moldova (2), Romania (3), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Tanzania (12), Uganda (1), Ukraine (2)
• Turolian of Afghanistan (1), Bulgaria (1), Greece (6)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (2), Uganda (2)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Bulgaria (1), Greece (4), Italy (2), Kenya (2), North Macedonia (1), Ukraine (1)
Total: 183 collections including 227 occurrences