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Cercocebus
Taxonomy
Cercocebus was named by Geoffroy (1812). It is extant.
It was assigned to Cercopithecini by Gray (1825); to Cercopithecidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Papionina by Jablonski (2002) and Xing et al. (2005); and to Cercopithecinae by Wilson and Reeder (2005).
It was assigned to Cercopithecini by Gray (1825); to Cercopithecidae by McKenna and Bell (1997); to Papionina by Jablonski (2002) and Xing et al. (2005); and to Cercopithecinae by Wilson and Reeder (2005).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1812 | Cercocebus Geoffroy |
| 1825 | Cercocebus Gray p. 338 |
| 1997 | Cercocebus McKenna and Bell |
| 2002 | Cercocebus Jablonski |
| 2005 | Cercocebus Wilson and Reeder |
| 2005 | Cercocebus Xing et al. |
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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. Cercocebus Geoffroy 1812
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Cercocebus agilis Milne-Edwards 1886
Cercocebus chrysogaster Lydekker 1900
Cercocebus galeritus Peters 1879
Cercocebus lunulatus Temminck 1853
Cercocebus sanjei Mittermeier 1986
Cercocebus torquatus Kerr 1792 [collared mangabey]
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Invalid names: Cercocebus collaris Gray 1843 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Zanclean to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 5.33300 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 3.6 Ma
Collections (11 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Tortonian - Zanclean | Kenya | C. sp. (22236) | |
| Messinian - Piacenzian | Kenya (Turkana District) | C. sp. (21332) | |
| Zanclean | Ethiopia | C. sp. (22175) | |
| Gelasian | Kenya | C. sp. (21446 21451) | |
| Gelasian - Calabrian | Kenya | C. sp. (21377 21442 21456 21522) | |
| Calabrian | Kenya | C. sp. (32085) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Tanzania | C. sp. (21893) |