Theropithecus brumpti
Extinct species of Old World monkey / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Theropithecus brumpti was a large terrestrial monkey that lived in the mid to late Pliocene. It is an extinct species of papionin.
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Theropithecus brumpti | |
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Skull of T. brumpti | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Cercopithecidae |
Genus: | Theropithecus |
Species: | †T. brumpti |
Binomial name | |
†Theropithecus brumpti Arambourg, 1947 | |
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This fossil primate is mostly known from skulls and mandibles found in Pliocene deposits excavated in the Shungura Formation, at the Omo River, Ethiopia. Both T. brumpti and its cousin, the extant gelada (T. gelada), were related to the baboon.[1]