Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Parent taxon: Cercopithecidae according to N.G. Jablonski and S. Frost 2010
See also Frost 2001, Frost et al. 2020, Gilbert 2007, Gilbert 2013, Jablonski 2002, Osterholz et al. 2008, Plavcan et al. 2019, Wilson and Reeder 2005 and Xing et al. 2005
Sister taxa: Anomalopithecus, Colobinae, Colobinae, Rungwecebus, Semnopithecus, Simia faunus
Subtaxa: Cercopithecini Mandrillus Papionini
Ecology: arboreal frugivore-folivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), China (20), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Croatia (1), Djibouti (1), Eswatini (2), Ethiopia (86), France (4), Germany (4), Greece (4), Hungary (1), India (1), Indonesia (5), Israel (1), Italy (6), Japan (1), Kenya (52), Laos (1), Malaysia (3), Morocco (3), the Philippines (3), Romania (2), South Africa (34), Spain (8), Sudan (3), Taiwan (2), Tanzania (8), Thailand (4), Türkiye (1), the United Kingdom (2), Vietnam (2), Zambia (3)
• Villafranchian of Greece (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Bulgaria (1), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Ethiopia (5), France (2), Italy (4), Kenya (12), Malawi (1), South Africa (6)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (16), France (1), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Kenya (15), Malawi (2), Moldova (1), Morocco (1), Romania (1), Serbia (1), South Africa (2), Spain (1), Tajikistan (2), Tanzania (17), Uganda (1), Ukraine (3)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (2), Kenya (4)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), China (1), Italy (1), Kenya (2), Libya (2)
Total: 386 collections including 488 occurrences