Rhinocolobus
Extinct genus of Old World monkeys / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rhinocolobus is an extinct genus of monkey closely related to modern colobus monkeys. It lived in eastern Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene, existing as recently as 1.5 million years ago.[1][2]
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Rhinocolobus | |
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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: | †Rhinocolobus Leakey, 1982 |
Species: | †R. turkanaensis |
Binomial name | |
†Rhinocolobus turkanaensis Leakey, 1982 | |
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