Paracolobus

Paracolobus is an extinct genus of primate in the Colobini tribe, which also contains the living colobus monkeys. It lived in eastern Africa in the early to late Pliocene.[1]

Paracolobus
Temporal range: Pliocene
Paracolobus chemeroni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Cercopithecidae
Genus: Paracolobus
R.E.F. Leakey, 1969
Species
  • Paracolobus chemeroni

References

  1. McKenna and Bell, 1997, p. 344

Literature cited

  • McKenna, M.C. and Bell, S.K. 1997. Classification of Mammals: Above the species level. New York: Columbia University Press, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8


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