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Colobus
Taxonomy
Colobus was named by Illiger (1811). It is extant.
It was assigned to Quadrumana by Illiger (1811); to Cynopithecinae by Schlosser (1877); to Cercopithecidae by Gray (1821) and McKenna and Bell (1997); to Colobini by Jablonski (2002); to Colobinae by Whittaker et al. (2006); and to Colobinae by Xing et al. (2005) and Osterholz et al. (2008).
It was assigned to Quadrumana by Illiger (1811); to Cynopithecinae by Schlosser (1877); to Cercopithecidae by Gray (1821) and McKenna and Bell (1997); to Colobini by Jablonski (2002); to Colobinae by Whittaker et al. (2006); and to Colobinae by Xing et al. (2005) and Osterholz et al. (2008).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1811 | Colobus Illiger p. 69 |
| 1821 | Colobus Gray p. 298 |
| 1877 | Colobus Schlosser p. 18 |
| 1997 | Colobus McKenna and Bell |
| 2002 | Colobus Jablonski |
| 2005 | Colobus Xing et al. |
| 2006 | Colobus Whittaker et al. p. 889 |
| 2008 | Colobus Osterholz et al. p. 5 |
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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.
G. Colobus Illiger 1811
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Colobus angolensis Sclater 1860 [Angola colobus]
Colobus cottoni Lydekker 1905
Colobus guereza Rüppell 1835 [mantled guereza]
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Invalid names: Colobus abyssinicus Oken 1816 [synonym]
Colobus polykomos Zimmermann 1780 [king colobus]
Colobus satanas Waterhouse 1838 [black colobus]
Colobus vellerosus Geoffroy 1834
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Nowak 1991, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 11.60800 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 5.333 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 5.333 Ma
Collections (11 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Miocene | Algeria | C. flandrini (34642) | |
| Zanclean - Calabrian | Kenya | C. sp. (21369) | |
| Gelasian - Calabrian | Kenya | C. sp. (21442 21456 21522) | |
| Calabrian | Kenya | C. sp. (32060) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Ethiopia | C. guereza (22129 22156) C. sp. (22138) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kenya | C. sp. (22272 22276) |