Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Parent taxon: Papionini according to N.G. Jablonski and S. Frost 2010
See also Jablonski 2002 and Xing et al. 2005
Sister taxa: Macaca, Macacina, Pliopapio, Procercocebus, Soromandrillus
Subtaxa: Cercocebus Dinopithecus Gorgopithecus Lophocebus Papio Parapapio Theropithecus
Ecology: arboreal frugivore-folivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (1 collection), the Congo-Kinshasa (2), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Djibouti (1), Eswatini (2), Ethiopia (81), India (1), Italy (1), Kenya (51), Morocco (3), South Africa (34), Spain (2), Sudan (1), Tanzania (8), Zambia (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Ethiopia (3), Kenya (12), Malawi (1), South Africa (6)
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (14), Kenya (14), Malawi (1), Morocco (1), South Africa (2), Tajikistan (2), Tanzania (17), Uganda (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (4)
• Miocene of Kenya (2)
Total: 273 collections including 335 occurrences