Tribe Cercopithecini Gray 1825 (monkey)
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Parent taxon: Cercopithecinae according to J. Xing et al. 2005
See also Jablonski 2002 and Plavcan et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Mandrillus, Papionini
Subtaxa: Allenopithecus Allochrocebus Cercopithecus Chlorocebus Erythrocebus Miopithecus Nanopithecus
Ecology: arboreal frugivore-folivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (2 collections), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Ethiopia (8), Kenya (4), South Africa (3), Sudan (2), Swaziland (2), Tanzania (1), Zambia (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (2), Kenya (2)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (3), Kenya (2), Malawi (1)
• Miocene to Pleistocene of Ethiopia (1)
Total: 36 collections including 37 occurrences