Microcolobus
Extinct genus of Old World monkeys / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Microcolobus is an extinct genus of Old world monkey that lived in eastern Africa during the Late Miocene and is regarded as the first known member of the Colobinae.[1]
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Microcolobus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Cercopithecidae |
Subfamily: | Colobinae |
Genus: | †Microcolobus Benefit & Pickford, 1986 |
Species: | †M. tugenensis |
Binomial name | |
†Microcolobus tugenensis Benefit & Pickford, 1986 | |
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