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Dolichopithecus ruscinensis

Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae

Taxonomy

Dolichopithecus ruscinensis was named by Depéret (1889).

Synonyms

Adelopithecus hypsilophus was named by Gremyatski (1958). It is the type species of Adelopithecus.

It was recombined as Dolichopithecus hipsulophus by Maschenko (1991); it was synonymized subjectively with Dolichopithecus ruscinensis by Delson et al. (2005).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1889	Dolichopithecus ruscinensis Depéret
1958	Adelopithecus hypsilophus Gremyatski
1991	Dolichopithecus ruscinensis Koufos et al. p. 285
1991	Dolichopithecus hipsulophus Maschenko
2002	Dolichopithecus ruscinensis Jablonski
2005	Dolichopithecus ruscinensis Delson et al. p. 161

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha

Rank	Name	Author
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Boreoeutheria
—	Euarchontoglires	Murphy et al. 2001
—	Euarchonta
order	Primates
infraorder	Haplorhini	(Pocock 1918)
—	Anthropoidea	(Mivart 1864)
infraorder	Catarrhini	Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
superfamily	Cercopithecoidea
family	Cercopithecidae
subfamily	Colobinae	Jerdon 1867
genus	Dolichopithecus	Depéret 1889
species	ruscinensis	Depéret 1889

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.

†Dolichopithecus ruscinensis Depéret 1889

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Invalid names: Dolichopithecus hipsulophus Gremyatski 1958 [synonym]

Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
G. D. Koufos et al. 1991	After Delson ( 1973, p. 506) and Szalay & Delson (1979, p. 411) . Colobine monkey of moderately large size; pronounced sexual dimorphism in canine-P3 complex; mandibular corpus depth constant between M, and P,; the P, is relatively narrow with equal-sized metaconid and protoconid; no sixth cuspid in M,; the mesial lophid of M, is wider than the distal of M,; the hypoconulid of M, is placed between the midline and the line joining the buccal cuspids.

Measurements

No measurements are available

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: Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991

Age range: MN 14 or 5.09000 to 4.16000 Ma

Collections (8 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Pliocene	5.333 - 3.6	Moldova	Dolichopithecus ruscinensis (198590)
Pliocene	5.333 - 2.58	Romania	Dolichopithecus ruscinensis (40113 40114)
MN 14	5.09 - 4.16	Bulgaria	Dolichopithecus ruscinensis (71061)
MN 14	5.09 - 4.16	Ukraine	Dolichopithecus ruscinensis (50908)
MN 14 - MN 15	5.09 - 3.55	Moldova	Dolichopithecus ruscinensis (50915)
Ruscinian	5.09 - 3.55	Greece	Dolichopithecus ruscinensis (214080)
Ruscinian	5.09 - 3.55	Spain (Soria)	Dolichopithecus ruscinensis (40548)