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Rhinopithecus roxellana (golden snub-nosed monkey)

Osteichthyes - Primates - Cercopithecidae

Taxonomy
Semnopithecus roxellana was named by Milne-Edwards (1870). It is extant.

It was recombined as Rhinopithecus roxellanae by Milne-Edwards (1872), Quan and Xie (1981); it was recombined as Pygathrix (Rhinopithecus) roxellana by Smith and Jungers (1997); it was recombined as Rhinopithecus roxellana by Jablonski (2002), Whittaker et al. (2006), Yang et al. (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1870Semnopithecus roxellana Milne-Edwards p. 34
1872Rhinopithecus roxellanae Milne-Edwards
1981Rhinopithecus roxellanae Quan and Xie p. 115
1997Pygathrix (Rhinopithecus) roxellana Smith and Jungers p. 547
2002Rhinopithecus roxellana Jablonski
2006Rhinopithecus roxellana Whittaker et al. p. 889
2012Rhinopithecus roxellana Yang et al. p. 7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
EuarchontogliresMurphy et al. 2001
Euarchonta
orderPrimates
infraorderHaplorhini(Pocock 1918)
Anthropoidea(Mivart 1864)
infraorderCatarrhiniGeoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
superfamilyCercopithecoidea
familyCercopithecidae
subfamilyColobinaeJerdon 1867
genusRhinopithecusMilne-Edwards 1872
speciesroxellana(Milne-Edwards 1870)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Rhinopithecus roxellana Milne-Edwards 1870 [golden snub-nosed monkey]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmean

Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: arborealf
Diet: frugivoref
Diet 2: folivoref
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-06-08 10:11:09
Modified: 2005-08-22 19:20:00
Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991

Age range: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene0.774 - 0.0117China (Hunan) Rhinopithecus roxellanae (36724)